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Re: dgit and upstream git repos



Hi,

On 10/09/2014 16:38, Ian Jackson wrote:
> ... I had thought that the stuff in .pc is necessary for dpkg-source
> to be able to build the package, and unpack the result.
> 
> If I can feed a .pc-less source tree to dpkg-source -b and get
> roughtly the right output then that would obviously be a big
> improvement.

No, it's not necessary: you can build the source package even without
unpacking the upstream sources, that is in a directory containing just
debian/. I use that all the time.

Ansgar


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