Re: debian native and CVS

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:59:22PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> Hi Bill,
> 
> Bill Allombert wrote:
> > What is the best way to handle native Debian packages under CVS?
> > The problem is to avoid the CVS directories going in the tarball.
> I think "-ICVS" passed to dpkg-buildpackage does the trick. See the man page of
> dpkg-source for details.

No, this will remove the CVS dirs from the diff, but there are no diffs
since this a native package.

I comtemplated switching to non-native for that reason but having to 
pass -iCVS to each source build is not convenient and error prone.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>