On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Ian Jackson wrote: > There might be dotfiles in DEBIAN.
This should not be a problem. If the tar invocation is changed from "tar <options> ." to "tar <options> *" as the reporter suggests, these dotfiles would be included as well because they are inside the DEBIAN directory. Look: $ mkdir DEBIAN $ touch DEBIAN/.dotfile $ tar czvf dummy.tgz * DEBIAN/ DEBIAN/.dotfile As you see, they are included. The only files that would *not* be included would be dotfiles in / Since they are not allowed by any FHS or FSSTND standard that I know this should not be a problem. > > Ian. > > (closing this bug report) > > I dont think this is apropriate here :( Any comments from others ? Ian, are you really concerned about the unability to create Debian packages containing dotfiles in the root directory?
