On Thu, 30 Dec 2010, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > "dpkg-source --before-build foo" is the command. You (can) call it. And it > > does whatever the source format decided to do in this hook. > > > > In practice, those commands are called by dpkg-buildpackage and it's > > their main purpose. Prepare the source tree for the build. Clean up > > afterwards. In a source-format specific way. > > Ah, then I entirely missed the point of the options. I thought they were > running some kind of shell scripts. Never mind then: to understand these > options one needs to understand more of the new kinds of source package > formats, and I didn't know they have hooks like that.
Can you see a way to make it clearer for people who don't have that background? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
