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Who maintains RPM? (2011 edition)Who maintains RPM? (2011 edition)Posted May 4, 2011 12:48 UTC (Wed) by juliank (subscriber, #45896)In reply to: Who maintains RPM? (2011 edition) by mathstuf Parent article: Who maintains RPM? (2011 edition)
> but I like the fact that the spec file and patches are
> separate from the tarball. [...] AFAICS, to get this > from dpkg sources, I'd need to download the tarball > and extract it.
I guess you are confusing something. In RPM distros, the tarball and changes are all stuffed together in one giant .srpm, while in Debian, the upstream code and the packages are separated into two files.
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Who maintains RPM? (2011 edition) Posted May 4, 2011 14:49 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]
I usually don't interact with SRPM files directly when finding out such things. I go to the Fedora git and poke around in there. Before, I hadn't found the Debian git web interface and as such had no easy access to what build commands/options were being used. It's still less than ideal (IMO) because it's an exploded tarball and everything is split into many files under debian/, but another search binding to go straight there is possible (debian-dir-only patches on patch-tracker seems to be what I want for the most part). I'll have to work on getting some of the changes for uzbl upstream (man pages, a bashism patch, a .desktop file, and some other things).
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