On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 01:02:56PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Joy proposed to put such information in debian/control instead. > > > > The idea of a new file was to ease parsing, but since it is read by > > dpkg-buildpackage it should be OK. > > This prevents people from using tricks like debian/control.in.
debian/control *must* exist when the source package is unpacked. Period. Whether it is overwritten later, is a separate matter.
