Re: Is there any opposition to a debian/ top-level subdir?

[Aaron Lehmann]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:17:37AM -0800, Paul Rohr wrote:
> 2.  Add a Debian-specific "make distribution" target which runs a script to 
> do all the necessary rearranging to create a single massive source tarball 
> which meets all their constraints (top-level Debian directory, packages in 
> the same tarball, etc.)  Sounds like a very easy script to write, no? 
> 
> The remaining administrative burden to type "make distribution" before 
> uploading sounds pretty reasonable. 

Unfortunately it isn't. Debian packages are often built by machines,
which is one of the reasons that the debian/ top-level subdir is
required by debian policy.

For example, when the Alpha autobuilder tried to compile something
non-standard like this, the results wouldn't be pretty.