Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.14.5
Severity: minor
The dpkg-source manual reads:
-i[regexp]
You may specify a perl regular expression to match files you
...
This is very helpful in cutting out extraneous files that get
! included in the .diff.gz, (eg: "debian/BUGS_TODO/*" or
! "debian/RCS/*,v"). For instance, if you maintain a package that
you track via remote CVS, where you don't have access permis-
sions for committing the debian control files and making tags
for cvs-buildpackage(1), it is necessary to perform an extra
checkout/update into a directory you keep pristine, to generate
...
In the marked lines, these wild cards examples do not constitute a
regular expresssions. The text would be better replaced with real
regular expression example to suppress mentioned file.
SUGGESTION
============
This is very helpful in cutting out extraneous files that get
included in the .diff.gz. E.g. to ignore files
"debian/BUGS_TODO/*" and "debian/RCS/*,v", the options passed
would be "-idebian/BUGS_TODO -idebian/RCS". For instance, if
you maintain a package that you track via remote CVS, where you
don't have access permissions for committing the debian
control files and making tags for cvs-buildpackage(1), it is
necessary to perform an extra checkout/update into a directory
you keep pristine, to generate
...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on:
ii binutils 2.18-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii cpio 2.9-3 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii dpkg 1.14.5 package maintenance system for Deb
ii make 3.81-3 The GNU version of the "make" util
ii patch 2.5.9-4 Apply a diff file to an original
ii perl [perl5] 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-modules 5.8.8-7 Core Perl modules
Versions of packages dpkg-dev recommends:
ii bcc [c-compiler] 0.16.17-2 16-bit x86 C compiler
ii bzip2 1.0.3-7 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.2.1-5 The GNU C compiler
ii gcc-4.0 [c-compiler 4.0.3-7 The GNU C compiler
ii gcc-4.1 [c-compiler 4.1.2-16 The GNU C compiler
ii gcc-4.2 [c-compiler 4.2.1-4 The GNU C compiler
ii tcc [c-compiler] 0.9.24~cvs20070502-1 the smallest ANSI C compiler
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