On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 06:31:54PM +0100, Michèl Alexandre Salim wrote: [debian/ in upstream makes maintaining package difficult] > The reason I raise this issue in the first place is actually a > notion that it would be nice for users wanting bleeding-edge > software to update from CVS and just run debian/rules binary or > dpkg-buildpackage, the same way they can rpm -tb package.tar.gz > currently (granted, most of the time one thing or another is broken. > Especially the changelog - rather incredible).
I've been thinking about this as well - it /would/ be nice for a user to just run dpkg-buildpackage after unpacking the tarball... Maybe a simple and straightforward solution would be to provide a "debian.upstream" directory in the upstream sources, and a rule in the upstream Makefile which soft-links this to "debian" before running dpkg-buildpackage. Then the user would only have to "make deb". Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ ´` ¯
