On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 10:29:24AM -0500, Eric Cooper wrote: > I've added a rule that creates control from control.in using sed. But > when should that rule be invoked? If I try to make my "build" target > depend on debian/control, it doesn't work, because debuild calls > dpkg-checkbuilddeps before this gets run. > > I see some of Zack's packages have an ocamlinit target. When does > "debian/rules ocamlinit" happen? > > Or should the generated debian/control file be left around (and > checked into svn?) In which case, someone has to manually regenerate > the control files when the OCaml ABI changes?
debian/control should *NOT* be generated automatically at run time, it should only happen before uploading the package. That is the uploaded source package should have a control, not only the control.in. This is indeed, as you noted, because policy mandates no modification of the build-depends at build time, and since we want to modify build-depends, we have to call debian/rules debian/control ourself before actually building the packages. The linux-2.6 kernel packages do so also, in a much grander scale. Also, i have been thinking about expanding this for native arches, to have ocaml provide a native-arch-list, and have it be expanded at debian/control generation time. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
