Re: What to do if the original tarball contains a debian subdirectory

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrij.ledkov@gmail.com>]

2009/1/28 Al Nikolov <a.nikolov@drweb.com>:
> Luca Niccoli wrote:
>
> > The original tarball already contains a debian subdirectory (which
> > needs some corrections anyway), how should I deal with that?
> > If I dh_make straight after unpacking the tarball, dh_make won't
> > modify the debian subdirectory; but I wonder if removing it beforehand
> > will tamper the orig.tar.gz
>
> It's nothing wrong to make changes in ustream's /debian directory wich will
> be represented in diff

I have a similar question. Upstream has file ./debian/files in their tarball.

Lintian complained about that file so I've deleted it. But during build in pbuilder
it gets added back from the orig tarball. How to handle this?



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With best regards


Ледков Дмитрий Юрьевич

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