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Re: bash and conflicting orig tars
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Jun 27 17:53:35 2008
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: "Aaron M. Ucko" <amu@alum.MIT.EDU>
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
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On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 17:12 -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
> This is a good idea. I'll have to think about the precise way of
> getting it to work with debathenificator, but it should be doable.
Sadly, it's not. Both the Ubuntu and Debian bash packages use a
two-level-tarball system, where the orig tarball contains a tarball
inside it, and the patch just creates debian/ files. debian/rules knows
how to untar the tarball, apply patches, and build the resulting stuff.
Standardizing on one of the orig tarballs would not work because patches
can't convey differences between binary files.
