Re: Build-time setting of binary package names

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>]

Peter S Galbraith wrote:

> "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" wrote:
>
> > problem is you have to have valid package names in debian/control.
> > Perhaps you could do something like a control.in which gets
> > dynamically created based on the parameters you set.
>
> I agree.  I'm setup to build unofficial binary packages with
> different names than the official ones in one of my packages, and I
> do that with a rules target that saves the `real' control file and
> generates a fake one:
>
> [snip]
>
> It works.

Excellent, I'll give it a try!

-Adam P.

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