Hi Dod and thanks for the suggestion.
On Wednesday, 22 July 2020 05:58:26 CEST Olek Wojnar wrote:
> However, upstream also includes a configuration file or two required for
> Package A in a directory containing several dozen Package B files.
In this case, I would politely ask upstream to move the configuration files in
another location to make Debian packaging easier.
In my experience, barring technical issues, this kind of request tends to be
accepted upstream.
That might indeed work in some cases but unfortunately not here. The files I need are `BUILD` files, the Bazel equivalent of a makefile. Even if they wanted to, upstream would not be able to move them.
While I don't need to package sources that are already available in Debian, I do need the configuration information contained in those `BUILD` files.
-Olek