Control: tags -1 pending Geoffrey Thomas: > Package: debhelper > Version: 10.7.2 > Tags: patch > Severity: wishlist > > Hi Debhelper maintainers, >
Hi, > I would sort of like to use Debhelper to build Debian packages on macOS, > as an alternative to homebrew etc. Thanks for the interest. :) Let me know if there are other things that would be useful to the macOS port. :) > The general process of bootstrapping > Debian on macOS takes a lot of steps, but one of the sillier steps is > creating a case-sensitive disk image, because Debhelper ships both a > debian/ and Debian/ directory. The default macOS root filesystem is > case-preserving but not case-sensitive, so extracting a tarball > containing debian/ and Debian/ will cause one directory to clobber the > other. > Indeed, I have considered fixing it earlier but never got around to do it. Thanks for providing a patch. :) > I have a commit at > https://gitlab.com/geofft/debhelper > which does a `git mv Debian lib/Debian` (removing the existing lib -> . > symlink), plus a few fixes to point things at the Debian subdirectory. > I've tested that the resulting binary packages are identical to the one > in unstable, other than the changed path in debian/copyright (and the > lack of doc/SMARTER-BUILDSYSTEMS, which seems not to have been committed > to git). I've also confirmed that `prove -vwlr t`, as mentioned in the > commit introducing the lib symlink, continues to pass. For review, you > probably want to use `git show -M` on my patch to recognize the renames. > Excellent. :) Indeed, SMARTER-BUILDSYSTEMS has not been committed. It is a WIP document for summarizing my thoughts on the use-cases. > Can you please consider applying this patch? Thanks! > Done as 3e2178efae2a2ce3ec9b8c56c7709370887a3652, it will be a part of 10.7.3 or 10.8. Thanks, ~Niels
