On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 06:24:09PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 01:02:56PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > Joy proposed to put such information in debian/control instead. > > > > > > The idea of a new file was to ease parsing, but since it is read by > > > dpkg-buildpackage it should be OK. > > > > This prevents people from using tricks like debian/control.in. > > debian/control *must* exist when the source package is unpacked. Period. > > Whether it is overwritten later, is a separate matter. Uh, what if I want to put the following at the very top of my debian/control file? # $Id$ I was given to understand that dpkg 1.10.15 or so would be just fine with it, whereas dpkg 1.9.21 or so would vomit all over it. -- G. Branden Robinson | There's something wrong if you're Debian GNU/Linux | always right. branden@debian.org | -- Glasow's Law http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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