retitle 692164 dpkg-source -x: upstream .pc directory prevents patch application severity 692164 normal quit
Hi Michael, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Hi, dpkg-source will have trouble dealing with upstream tarballs > containing pre-existing .pc directories. For example, see: > http://bugs.debian.org/692073 > > Since results can be unpredictable in these situations, I think the > ideal solution is for dpkg-source to throw and error when it comes > across a tarball with .pc already existing. Yeah, that sounds broken. I don't think that if this bug is present in stable it would be worth a stable update to fix it there, though, so I'm lowering the severity. An ideal fix would have two parts: 1. skipping .pc when unpacking the upstream tarball 2. in some tool (dpkg-source or lintian) detecting the brokenness when creating the upstream tarball Thanks for writing and hope that helps, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
