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Re: Please include ada-hurd.diff upstream (try2)
- From: Samuel Thibault <samuel dot thibault at gnu dot org>
- To: Svante Signell <svante dot signell at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Arnaud Charlet <charlet at adacore dot com>, Matthias Klose <doko at debian dot org>
- Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 23:28:48 +0200
- Subject: Re: Please include ada-hurd.diff upstream (try2)
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Svante Signell, on Wed 04 May 2016 23:25:28 +0200, wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 23:06 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Svante Signell, on Wed 04 May 2016 19:43:27 +0200, wrote:
> > > May I comment on Debian way of apt-get source gcc-*: Doing that
> > > does
> > > not unpack the sources, neither does it apply the patches, you have
> > > to
> > > unpack and patch before you can change sources and update patches.
> > > Iv'e
> > > patched the sources several times and still find that the updated
> > > patches are not included in the next build. Really confusing.
> >
> > Did you read debian/README.source?
>
> Now I have read it, but still cannot find a convincing reason for doing
> things this way, sorry! Matthias, why? There should be very strong
> arguments for the present procedure.
See rules.patch. You can't get this behavior with the simple dpkg
patching.
Samuel