On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:04:45PM +0200, Christian Aichinger wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:09:35PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > Woah, it's not okay for sourceful uploads either. You *cannot* change > > anything that goes into the source package at build time. This > > includes the top entry in changelog and the source section of the > > control file. Trying to do this *will not work*. > > At the point when the changes are made, the source package HAS ALREADY > > BEEN BUILT. What happens is that the changes made in the currentx build > > get included in the *next* source package you build from the same > > tree, so the source and binary are perpetually out of sync. This is > > BAD. > Cdbs lets you generate debian/control dynamically, via a control.in > file, where e.g. @cdbs@ is substituted for build-deps needed by cdbs > (which already caused bugs in the past), among other things. This is supposedly being fixed for cdbs2 to no longer happen at package build time. The -devel rant about that particular misfeature of cdbs was postponed until after the sarge release; I'm not sure it's any longer necessary. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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