Joachim Breitner wrote: > > you could develop it all in one branch, but before running > dpkg-buildpackage run a script that does (untested code) > > UPSTREAM_VERSION=$(cat debian/changelog|some_grep_magic) > SOURCE_NAME=$(cat debian/control|some_grep_magic) > git archive --format=tar --prefix="$SOURCE_NAME-$UPSTREAM_VERSION" | \ > tar --file - --delete "$SOURCE_NAME-$UPSTREAM_VERSION/debian" | \ > gzip -9 > ../"$SOURCE_NAME_$UPSTREAM_VERSION".orig.tar.gz > > This will place a nicely named tarball in the directory above, where > dpkg-buildpackage will find it and the only differences it will find are > the debian/ directory... > > Does this sound viable?
That's an interesting idea, and makes me wonder: perhaps I could just use the ./setup sdist output as the upstream tarball? It would make sense on a number of levels, I think. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
