Received: (at maintonly) by bugs.debian.org; 28 Feb 1997 16:05:18 +0000 Received: (qmail 11104 invoked from network); 28 Feb 1997 16:05:17 -0000 Received: from nhv-ct4-16.ix.netcom.com (HELO sauron.fashion-tech.com) (mail@205.184.152.144) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 28 Feb 1997 16:05:16 -0000 Received: from klee by sauron.fashion-tech.com with local (Exim 1.598 #1) id 0w0Ugb-0007aT-00 (Debian); Fri, 28 Feb 1997 10:57:09 -0500 From: Klee Dienes Reply-To: Klee Dienes To: maintonly@bugs.debian.org Subject: dpkg-source should possibly not use unified diff format Message-Id: Sender: Klee Dienes Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 10:57:09 -0500 Package: dpkg-dev If we truly want to make maximum compatibility with other systems' version of diff a priority, we should probably be using '-C 2' instead of '-u' in dpkg-source -b. Personally I believe that it's perfectly fine to require the use of GNU diff (cf. the directory creation argument), and that it's not worth the effort to switch to a different (and inferior) diff format. I'm just submitting the bug report to remind myself to bring up the issue later for discussion.