Bug#840308: dpkg: extraction of additional orig archives into nested subdirectory

2016-11-03 Thread Guillem Jover 
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Hi!

On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 14:53:40 +0200, Simon Richter wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.18.10
> Severity: wishlist

> I have several packages that use additional .orig archives for program
> modules, but these are almost always expected in a nested subdirectory for
> the package build, e.g. "modules/foo". It would be nice if there was a way
> to ship this as a separate archive instead of repacking the source.

As I asked on IRC at the time, why is creating symlinks on the
expected locations to the base directories not good enough?

Adding support for this seems to me would be a very special case,
would require to specify this somewhere, and you might as well just
add that as part of the debian/rules already. So I'm kind of failing
a bit to see the need for this.

If there's no convincing arguments put forward I'll probably be
closing this request in a bit.

Thanks,
Guillem

Bug#840308: dpkg: extraction of additional orig archives into nested subdirectory

2016-10-10 Thread Simon Richter 
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.18.10
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

I have several packages that use additional .orig archives for program
modules, but these are almost always expected in a nested subdirectory for
the package build, e.g. "modules/foo". It would be nice if there was a way
to ship this as a separate archive instead of repacking the source.

   Simon

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0   1.0.6-8
ii  libc62.23-5
ii  liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1
ii  libselinux1  2.5-3
ii  tar  1.29b-1
ii  zlib1g   1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

dpkg recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii  apt  1.3~rc4

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