On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 08:44:14AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Control: retitle -1 document how to un-ignore files ignored by default in
> "3.0 (native)" and "3.0 (quilt)"
>
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, peter green wrote:
> > When attempting to build such a package using the 3.0 native format
> > the source package build and binary package builds will succeed, but
> > the "source" package won't actually contain the binaries that were
> > in the source tree and so when someone comes to unpack said source
> > package again to make a change they will find it is incomple.
> >
> > IMO silently ignoring such files is a crazy default, either the
> > files should be included or source package build should scream and
> > die (thus prompting the packager that they need to either fix thier
> > clean target or override something).
>
> It doesn't silently ignore random binary files, it ignores the files
> that are on its default ignore list and which are documented
> in dpkg-source --help:
>
> -I[<pattern>] filter out files when building tarballs
> (defaults to: -I*.a -I*.la -I*.o -I*.so -I.*.sw?
> -I*/*~ -I,,* -I.[#~]* -I.arch-ids -I.arch-inventory -I.be -I.bzr
> -I.bzr.backup -I.bzr.tags -I.bzrignore -I.cvsignore -I.deps -I.git
> -I.gitattributes -I.gitignore -I.gitmodules -I.hg -I.hgignore -I.hgsigs
> -I.hgtags -I.shelf -I.svn -ICVS -IDEADJOE -IRCS -I_MTN -I_darcs -I{arch}).
>
> So yes, *.a, *.la, *.o and *.so are ignored by default in native source
> package
> and this is is so for as long as I can remember.
>
> If you are unhappy with the default, please change it for your package
> with debian/source/options:
>
> tar-ignore=.git
> tar-ignore=.gitignore
>
> As soon as you start being explicit about the ignore rules, the default
> ignore rules are no longer used but you can put the default ignore rule
> back with a single "tar-ignore" (i.e. without value).
I tried this, dpkg-buildpackage then starts complaining:
dpkg-source: warning: --tar-ignore= is not a valid option for
Dpkg::Source::Package::V3::Native
This solution does work when switching back to source format 1 though
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