Re: Native vs. non-native packages
Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Mittwoch, den 21.01.2009, 14:44 -0600 schrieb John Goerzen:
>> Joachim Breitner wrote:
>>> you could develop it all in one branch, but before running
>>> dpkg-buildpackage run a script that does (untested code)
>>>
>>> UPSTREAM_VERSION=$(cat debian/changelog|some_grep_magic)
>>> SOURCE_NAME=$(cat debian/control|some_grep_magic)
>>> git archive --format=tar --prefix="$SOURCE_NAME-$UPSTREAM_VERSION" | \
>>> tar --file - --delete "$SOURCE_NAME-$UPSTREAM_VERSION/debian" | \
>>> gzip -9 > ../"$SOURCE_NAME_$UPSTREAM_VERSION".orig.tar.gz
>>>
>>> This will place a nicely named tarball in the directory above, where
>>> dpkg-buildpackage will find it and the only differences it will find are
>>> the debian/ directory...
>>>
>>> Does this sound viable?
>> That's an interesting idea, and makes me wonder:
>>
>> perhaps I could just use the ./setup sdist output as the upstream
>> tarball? It would make sense on a number of levels, I think.
>
> eh, right. I forgot that you are packaging cabal stuff :-)
Isn't just about everyone these days? ;-)
>
> Greetings,
> Joachim
>
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