Re: Non standard tar-ball.

[Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>]

dpkg-source doesn't care what is inside the upstream tarball, it will
always unpack to foo-1.2.3/ and the Debian tarball/diff will be
unpacked/applied so that foo-1.2.3/debian/ exists.

For info about library packaging, check out libpkg-guide but note its
two deficiencies:

http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html

Recommends using libfooX-dev (where X is the SONAME/ABI number)
instead of libfoo-dev.

Doesn't mention anything about symbols files, more info here:

http://manpages.debian.net/man/1/dpkg-gensymbols
http://wiki.debian.org/UsingSymbolsFiles

-- 
bye,
pabs

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