Re: Generating debian package using cmake (take 3)

["Mathieu Malaterre" <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Steve Langasek wrote:
>> Joey Hess has done some work to allow debhelper to handle the case of files
>> under debian/ that should be ignored (since they can't be deleted as part of
>> a diff); I'm afraid I don't know the current state of this work and haven't
>> heard of it being much used in practice to date, so I don't know that it's
>> very practical - I certainly think it's ugly to have to do things this way,
>> even if it's /possible/ to work around upstream shipping debian/ in the
>> tarball.
>
> BTW, the new source format "3.0 (quilt)" will always ignore any
> pre-existing debian dir in the .orig tarball. It will completely remove
> that directory (if it exists) before unpacking the debian tarball.
>
> So this is a problem that is approaching its end.

ok then I should not worry too much about that.

Thanks,
-- 
Mathieu