On Thu, 23 May 2019 16:00:06 +0200 Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > You could simply symlink them instead?
Yes, there are workarounds but this will have to be done for every such case and everyone will have to do it as well. > > I hope this can be fixed. > > I think I'd rather not change the current behavior. But I guess could > perhaps be otherwise convinced with solid arguments. Otherwise I'm > planning on marking this wontfix and close in a bit. > > > Thinking about this a bit more, I guess one option could be to make > dpkg-source map these automatically. Say after #577113 is implemented, > you'd list the component there as «foo.bar», and then dpkg-source > would know to look for «.orig-foo-bar.» and then unpack as «foo.bar». > I guess that would solve your problem w/o needing to change the > accepted filename pattern. It would still be backwards incompatible > though. Yes, this will be a perfect solution. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
