Bug#32828: dpkg-dev: control.tar.gz and data.tar.gz containing ./
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Ian Jackson wrote:
> There might be dotfiles in DEBIAN.
This should not be a problem. If the tar invocation is changed from
"tar <options> ." to "tar <options> *" as the reporter suggests, these
dotfiles would be included as well because they are inside the
DEBIAN directory. Look:
$ mkdir DEBIAN
$ touch DEBIAN/.dotfile
$ tar czvf dummy.tgz *
DEBIAN/
DEBIAN/.dotfile
As you see, they are included.
The only files that would *not* be included would be dotfiles in /
Since they are not allowed by any FHS or FSSTND standard that I know
this should not be a problem.
> > Ian.
> > (closing this bug report)
>
> I dont think this is apropriate here :( Any comments from others ?
Ian, are you really concerned about the unability to create Debian
packages containing dotfiles in the root directory?
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