Re: ignoring upstream debian directory
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Frank Küster wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> schrieb:
> > Repack the upstream tarball sans the bogus debian/ dir, or use one of the
> > unpack-tarball-on-build-tree/-and-patch packaging styles...
>
> Why not just replace the upstream debian dir with your version in
> diff.gz? Just because some tool (uupdate) might have problems with that?
Patch cannot delete files.
So, don't trust diff.gz to give you a clean debian/ dir when upstream has
some cruft in there. It is dangerous, and potentially much more confusing
than one might expect, since you will have to delete bogus files in the
clean targed of debian/rules. It will bite the security guys, or someone
doing an NMU. Or it will bite you when a new upstream comes that has a
dangerous file in debian/ that you didn't notice in time.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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