Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.25 Severity: normal libcgi-application-basic-plugin-bundle-perl is a package that aggregates several Perl modules from CPAN (each of these is distributed upstream as a .tar.gz)
What I currently do is to include these modules within in a tarballs subdirectory of my package and unpack them at build time to create the binary package. This works but has all the disadvantages of "tarballs in tarballs" What I would like to do instead is to use the multiple .orig.tar.gz feature of the 3.0 (quilt) source format. Each module would become a l-a-b-p-b-p_$version-$modulename-$moduleversion.orig.tar.gz and together with my debian directory make up the source of my package. The problem is dpkg-source seems to insist on there being a l-a-b-p-b_$version.orig.tar.gz even though I have nothing to put in there. I can create an empty dummy one easy enough but this is an unnecessary annoyance. With a 1.0 format package I could use the -su switch to automatically create the file from a l-a-b-p-b-p-$version.orig directory or even the -sn switch to skip it altogether but this is not implemented for 3.0. Is there some reason why not? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jald...@debian.org> -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers karmic-updates APT policy: (1100, 'karmic-updates'), (1100, 'karmic-security'), (1100, 'karmic-proposed'), (1100, 'karmic-backports'), (1100, 'karmic'), (99, 'unstable'), (10, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on: ii binutils 2.20-0ubuntu2 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii bzip2 1.0.5-3 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg 1.15.4ubuntu2 Debian package management system ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl ii lzma 4.43-14ubuntu1 Compression method of 7z format in ii make 3.81-6 An utility for Directing compilati ii patch 2.5.9-5 Apply a diff file to an original ii perl [perl5] 5.10.0-24ubuntu4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-modules 5.10.0-24ubuntu4 Core Perl modules Versions of packages dpkg-dev recommends: ii build-essential 11.4 Informational list of build-essent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
