Re: conflict/replace/provide
On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 11:22:50PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> The behavior is this:
[snip]
So I've noticed :) I read the manuals after I posted, and it's like you
say.
> If you want it to use a different temporary directotory, you can always use
> -Ptmpdir, which will force the debhelper command to use "tmpdir" as the
> temporary directory.
But that means that I can say goodbye to invoking just 'dh_strip' for
all packages - I have to call it once, and then once more with -Pwhatever
because it won't parse the changed directory on the first run. Yes that
is easily solvable but it'll also make my debian/rules a total mess :(
> This design is admittedly, a little wacked. Unfortunatly, I inherited it
> from debstd. If debhelper hadn't been mostly compatable with debstd in the
> beginning, it probably wouldn't have caught on. But now I'm left with debstd
> compatability-cruft. One of these days, I'm going to figure out how to get
> rid of it w/o breaking backwards compatability too badly. (I hope.)
Too bad. I'll stick to this in the meantime.
> > And when I try that same thing in another target, it will create
> > debian/package/<dir>, and wouldn't even think about debian/tmp/.
>
> Are you sure? That would be a serious bug in debhelper.
However, don't take my words for granted - I *think* I noticed this
behaviour - but that was in a complicated situation and I was tired.
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