I haven’t looked closely at it myself, but qtwebengine-opensource-src accomplishes something along these lines using `get-orig-source` in their rules file.
https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/qt/qtwebengine/-/blob/master/debian/rules
Note that, in their case, you must have the python3-debian package installed, because the script depends on Python for some of the processing.
On Monday, January 16, 2023 9:27:59 AM MST Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 05:05:39PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried to create a multi-source tarball for scipy in its experimental
> > branch[1]. Upstream includes a set of git submodules in its build
> > process. I intended to merge all these submodules in a single
> > scipy_1.10.0.orig-submodules.tar.gz. This tarball is created with a
> > script[2] which makes sure that the exact directory structure as it is
> > used by upstream is conserved. This directory layout is needed in the
> > build process. Unfortunately `dpkg-source -x` extracts the content of
> > the submodules tarball into a subdirectory submodules/.
> >
> > Is there any trick to unpack this tarball right into the root?
> > Otherwise I need to do some symlinks workaround in d/rules to provide
> > all files where these are needed.
>
> Not that I know of; this is the design of the multi-source tarball
> setup: each component tarball is extracted into a directory with the
> name of the component.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Julian
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