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Re: Why ".udeb" won't work.



[sorry for the CC, but I lust for this fix]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 03:54:47PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> FWIW, the following patch allows my .udeb package to build all the way:
> 
> --- /usr/bin/dpkg-genchanges    Tue Jun 20 08:16:28 2000
> +++ dpkg-genchanges     Thu Oct 26 15:52:42 2000
> @@ -147,7 +147,8 @@
>         if (!defined($p2f{$p})) {
>             if ($a eq 'any' || ($a eq 'all' && !$archspecific) ||
>                 grep($_ eq $substvar{'Arch'}, split(/\s+/, $a))) {
> -               &error("package $p in control file but not in files list");
> +               &warn("package $p in control file but not in files list");
> +               next;
>             }
>         } else {
>             $p2arch{$p}=$a;

Yes.  Let's do this.  It will kill another bird, one that I've wanted for a
long time.  I want to be able to build extra .debs without being required
to ship them.  For instance:

xlibs-dbg
xserver-xfree86-dbg

-- 
G. Branden Robinson             |   I just wanted to see what it looked like
Debian GNU/Linux                |   in a spotlight.
branden@debian.org              |   -- Jim Morrison
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