* Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> [250408 09:46]:
On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 03:07:54PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
Is there any reasonable situation where modification (during build) of
ANY existing files under debian/ is a good idea?
I know modifying existing non-debian/ files is common to patch
source-level problems, but is modifying existing debian/ files wide
spread? Could anyone do a archive-wide non-root rebuild with 'chmod -R
-w debian/' with debian/ owned by some other user?
debhelper creates files in debian/
so maybe we should stick with the original question.
debian/control is not autogenerated, but DEBIAN/control is
(by dpkg-gencontrol). This difference should be made clear in the rationale.
I believe this is already clear from the context. The section is
titled:
Debian source package template control files -- ``debian/control``
Chris
