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Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 12:42:46 -0400
From: Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com>
Organization: Verisim, Inc.  http://www.verisim.com/
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Subject: dpkg-buildpackage order of operations
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Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.4.0.8

This isn't a bug...  just an idea.

Would it be possible to change "dpkg-buildpackage" such that it makes the
binary packages before the source packages?  This has two advantages I
can see:

1)  Since the maintainer has probably just finished building a binary
package and has been testing installing it, there is likely nothing to
be done for the "build" step and thus the "buildpackage" command would
take far less time.

2)  Making the source package last means that all derived files are
automaticially cleaned out and not left around.  Since "buildpackage" is
likely the very last step in the process, those derived files are
probably not going to be used for a while anyway and won't end up
forgotten about and taking up large amounts of disk space.

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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