unfortunately, debian/ packaging works only if located in rootDir. :( If you have better ones - can you put it and we will use it?
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylves...@debian.org>wrote: > Hello, > > Le 06/11/2013 15:26, Barrett, Brian W a écrit : > > Hi all - > > > > Mike added a debian/ directory to the top-level of the tree this morning, > > which looks to be helping in building a Debian package. While I don't > > mind helping Debian, I'm really against having a debian/ directory in our > > top-level tree. We have a place for those things (in contrib/). If > > Debian can't conform to that requirement, maybe we shouldn't have Debian > > supportŠ > > > I am sorry but it does not help for a few reasons: > * We, in Debian, are doing several uploads of the same upstream version. > So, we always have to modify debian/ > * Our tools are removing automatically debian/ in upstream tarballs > * They would have to be in rootDir/debian/, rootDir/contrib/debian would > not work. > * There are already the Debian packages which are a bit more complete > and tested than the one pushed ;) > > Sylvestre > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel >
