Re: First emdebian package
Hi,
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:53:28PM +0100, Martin Fuzzey wrote:
> Assuming the xcontrol is needed there is a lot of duplication with
> control. The wiki mentions the possibility of using xcontrol(1) from
> debian/rules to generate debian/control from debian/xcontrol however a
> cursory look at a few crush packages didn't show me any uses of this
> (I haven't grepped for this on a full checkout though). What is the
> recommended practice here?
Debian policy forbids generating the control file at build time. The idea
is to maintain the xcontrol file, generate the control file from that
(manually), and this way end up with a package that is Debian policy
compliant and still has the extended entries from xcontrol.
Simon
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