On Friday 15 December 2006 18:49, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> Raphaël Pinson wrote:
> > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/array-info/array-info_0.12-1
> >.dsc
>
> please build-depend on the linux-headers package, and do not include
> them into your orig.tar.gz.
Absolutely. Never add anything to the .orig.tar.gz tarball. However, I believe
linux-kernel-headers is the right package to depend on for
linux/cciss_ioctl.h. But (cpqarray.h ida_cmd.h ida_ioctl.h) aren't directly
in any package, only in the bzip2ed tarball in linux-source-2.6*. What's the
correct way of building then? If your supposed to use those header files to
compile user-space programs, then perhaps the Linux guys should put them
in ./include instead of ./drivers/block?
> do strip of the CVS dirs from orig.tar.gz and ask upstream to remove
> them in the next release.
This old debate again... I'm of the impression that it's more important that
the orig tarball is pristine. I've found this thread:
<http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/10/msg00001.html>. It doesn't
quite settle the issue, but it seems that CVS directories in the upstream
tarball is no issue even if one wants to import the package into one's own
CVS and use cvs-buildpackage, for example.
> btw, just a hint: it would be simpler using dpatch than applying the
> patches 'on your own'.
And with the right build-dependencies the patch probably won't be needed at
all.
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