Re: Generating debian package using cmake (take 3)
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 18:05 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 02:00:17AM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> >
> > > It is okay to have the debian directory in your tarball but, if you go down
> > > this road, it will be desirable that the Debian maintainer/sponsor for your
> > > package has commit access to the SVN repository.
> >
> > Even if this is the case, it is still annoying for NMUers to have to deal
> > with not being able to delete files from the debian/ directory as part of an
> > NMU (which can plausibly be required in order to fix a bug),
>
> Why can't a full-lines-removed diff be generated? patch will treat that
> as removal...
Only with the -E option. Otherwise an empty file is left-over. Current
source format (i.e. with .diff.gz) doesn't use -E, the newer 3.0 (quilt)
format does however use -E.
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog
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