Re: How to remove an entire directory (and included files) with a quilt patch?
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Emilien Klein <emilien+debian@klein.st> wrote:
> Hi mentors,
>
> I maintain the nautilus-image-manipulator package in Debian. N I M
> contains the source code for poster, which is now packaged in Debian.
> I thus want to make N I M depend on python-poster, and remove the copy
> of poster's source code from N I M's Debian package.
>
> I have to patch one file, and remove all the 3 files contained in the
> nautilus_image_manipulator/upload/poster/ folder (and that folder as
> well, since it's then empty).
>
> I've created a new patch (`dquilt new`) and added the 4 files (`dquilt
> add`) to that patch. I then modify that one file and `rm` the 3
> others, leaving the directory empty. A quick `dquilt refresh` and
> `dquilt header -e` further, and I'm done (following the Debian New
> Maintainers' Guide's instructions [0]).
>
> The package builds, installs and works fine if built locally with
> `debuild`, now using the code from the python-poster package instead
> of the hard copy. However, I notice these messages repeated several
> times during the build process:
>
> package init file
> 'nautilus_image_manipulator/upload/poster/__init__.py' not found (or
> not a regular file)
>
> (that file is one of the 3 deleted files)
>
>
> When I build the package with `pdebuild`, the package won't build and
> exits with this error::
>
> error: package directory 'nautilus_image_manipulator/upload/poster'
> does not exist
> dh_auto_build: python setup.py build --force returned exit code 1
> make: *** [build] Error 2
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
> E: Failed autobuilding of package
> W: no hooks of type C found -- ignoring
>
>
> I also tried adding that directory to the patch, but it won't let me
> add a directory. And if I `rm` the directory before building the
> package, the build process will stop with this (pretty similar) error
> message:
>
> error: package directory 'nautilus_image_manipulator/upload/poster'
> does not exist
> dh_auto_build: python2.6 setup.py build --force returned exit code 1
> make: *** [build] Erreur 1
> dpkg-buildpackage: erreur: debian/rules build a produit une erreur de
> sortie de type 2
> debuild: fatal error at line 1348:
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc failed
>
>
> What is the correct way to remove an entire directory and it's
> contained files with a quilt patch?
Why not do that in debian/rules ?
>
> Thanks for your wisdom ;)
> +Emilien
> P.S.: Please CC me as I'm not on the list
>
> [0] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/update.en.html#newrevision
>
>
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