On Tue, Jul 27, 2010, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> And here I have a problem. How much of debian/ directory should be
> provided in *-source binary packages? Minimal set just to be able to
> call "dpkg- buildpackage -b" and get wanted output or rather
> everything just in case?
So currently, various -source packages do various things; some
-source packages ship the upstream tarball + patches separately, other
ship a patched upstream tarball, and in one case it's upstream tarball
+ patches + some rules file to apply them.
I personally find that very inelegant and inconsistent.
Since we can't build-depend on the "source of this package", what I
would find elegant and consistent would be to ship the .dsc + any files
it references in the -source package. This is guaranteed to convey the
full source, we'd have an unified interface for unpacking (dpkg-source
-x), and we could call the build as usual.
However, there is no guarantee that the .dsc is in ../ during the
build of toolchain packages. In my experience, it is there though.
What I'd recommend is copying over ../$source_$version.dsc and files it
references into the -source binary package; if someone isn't happy
about reading from ../, or has a better idea, they will speak up :-)
[ It's of course possible to recreate a similar .dsc by running
dpkg-source on a copy of ./, but that would be a bit inefficient, and
would create a slightly different .dsc, albeit with approaching
contents. ]
Cheers,
--
Loïc Minier
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