Re: Support of new source packages in squeeze
Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, 09 Mar 2009, James Westby wrote:
>> On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 17:11 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>> > There's nothing to specify here, dpkg-source uses all additional tarballs
>> > that match the regexp (exactly like it identifies the .orig tarball
>> > currently).
>>
>> bzr-builddeb will endeavour to provide the ".orig.tar.gz" for a format 1
>> package, so that you can construct a source package from a bzr branch.
>>
>> This will be essentially impossible for 3.0 (quilt) packages that
>> use multiple tarballs, as there is no information in the unpacked
>> source package that tells you which tarballs are needed. This is a
>> pretty serious problem in my eyes.
>
> I could create debian/source/orig-components at unpack time and maybe even
> have dpkg-source -b check for their existence but I'm not yet convinced
> that this problem needs to be solved at the dpkg-source level.
>
> Furthermore, creating debian/source/orig-components is interesting
> for your use case together with --skip-debianization and it's somewhat
> weird to have only that file in the debian tree in that case.
>
> What do others think ?
I think it would be good to have this in dpkg. That way all the
different RCS build scripts can use the same file and syntax. If every
rcs-buildpackage creates their own file then migrating from e.g. svn
to git means rewriting that config.
MfG
Goswin
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