Re: Problem with dpkg-source
David, I was thinking, isn't it a bad idea to have those headers in the
package, b/c lets say someone downloads the source pacakge and rebuilds
it to a different kernel version. He'll have your source files, wouldn't
it be better to have a variable that can be set to wherever a persons
kernel source is, and copy the headers from there during a build.
Just wondering,
Shaya
On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
> > I've finally gotten around to converting libc5 to the new source
> > format. I'm all done except for one little problem. dpkg-source
> > doesn't like the fact that the Debianized source has additional
> > directories, specifically the kernel headers in include/linux,
> > include/asm-*, etc. As far as I can tell, the "-t" option being
> > passed to patch is the cause of the problem as it forces patch to
> > ignore patches for which an original file can't be found. What can I
> > do about this?
>
> Join the MFALFD (movement for a less fussy dpkg-source).
> >From what I've heard on debian-devel, its becomming quite a strong
> movement, with quite a few people complaining that we want to be able
> to modify plaintext files that (in the upstream source) don't
> end with a final newline, or who would like to create subdirs.
>
> > Lumping the ~600 or so kernel header files into the
> > main directory and having debian/rules sort it all out is NOT an
> > option as far as I'm concerned.
>
> As long as dpkg-source doesn't support wat we need, I guess the only
> way is to create a tar.gz and then uuencede it. This can be put
> in ./debian, without complaints from dpkg-source. And it should
> also be usefull evidence for the dpkg-source maintainer to try
> and persuade him that dpkg-source really should be a little bit
> less fussy.
>
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