On 2011-02-28 12:03 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> The 3.0 source formats by default ignore what dpkg-source -I would exclude.
>> It appears that as soon as you explicitly use -Isomething, this effect is
>> canceled and you need to use -I to get it back.
>
> Yes.
>
>> In my test case, a directory has .svn directories lying around and uses
>> source
>> format 3.0 (native). Building a source package with dpkg-buildpackage -S
>> excludes the .svn directories from the .tar.gz, as one would expect. But
>> running dpkg-buildpackage -S -Ifoo causes the .svn directories to appear in
>> ..tar.gz. You have to use dpkg-buildpackage -S -I -Ifoo to get the desired
>> outcome.
>>
>> This effect is a bit questionable in my mind, but even it is intentional, it
>> would be good to document it explicitly. (simple addition of "Note: When
>> using an -I option, the default ignores of the 3.0 formats are canceled.
>> You
>> would need to use -I without argument to get them back.)
>
> It was completely intentional. It might not have been the best choice.
>
> I wanted to keep a way to cancel the defaults by giving your own list of
> what you want to ignore.
>
>> Better yet might be to keep the default ignores always and add an explicit
>> unignore option.
>
> I wanted to keep some similarity with the behaviour of -i but that might
> not be a good idea. After all -I was always allowed to be used multiple
> times while -i was not.
>
> Not sure what the best interface is. unignore doesn't allow to drop all
> the defaults ignore but only those that you know of. OTOH, you're more
> likely to want to not ignore a specific file type rather than all.
I think this (unignoring certain files) would be most useful. For
instance, in ncurses I would like to ship a few linker scripts in
debian/, and for that it is necessary to unignore *.so or at least
debian/*.so. I'm fine with the other defaults, but right now it is
necessary to copy the whole lot to debian/source/options. And it will
get out of sync with dpkg-source's defaults sooner or later.
Cheers,
Sven
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