Re: Debian Packaging.
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 10:52:56AM -0400, Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann wrote:
> I've been working on packaging some files under debian for quite some
> time. However recently I just got stuck with a fairly odd problem. What
> I want to do is be able to assign different version numbers to pacakges
> built from the same source distribtuion. I figured that this could be
> done via changelogs for each individual package, however I kept getting
> errors during the dh_gencontrol step about conflicting values.
>
> Here is what I want to do (in summary)
>
> source pacakge foo. will build four packages (foo, bar, baz, qux). foo
> and bar are both version 1.0 and baz and qux are version 2.0. Is it
> possible to get this to work using a single debian packaging directory?
Use:
dh_gencontrol -p$(PACKAGE) -v$(VERSION)
you then just need to call dh_gencontrol multiple times, once for each
package.
See the debian/rules of gcc-defaults for a (somewhat complicated)
example.
--Jeroen
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