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 :-) Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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