Joey Hess wrote: > Except, of course for the fact that debhelper does not have anything to > do with getting the version number out of debian/changelog and into > debian/foo/DEBIAN/control in the binary packge. Yes, of course. After sending that message I regretted the misleading simplification. However, I found that requiring the use of midlevel (dpkg-gencontrol, dpkg-buildpackage) or lower tools, NM application discover more of of the true format of the debian package. > Perhaps you should instead ask newbies to package stuff without the aid > of dpkg-dev. :-P I'll bet that a *lot* of people do not know exactly how > substvars work, for example. Well, I'm thinking that way to a very limited extent. I'm planning on a test question that requires retrieval of a particular piece of data from a debian package using just ar and tar as archive tools. -- Kevin Rosenberg | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** http://b9.com/debian.html | : :' : The universal GPG signed and encrypted | `. `' Operating System messages accepted. | `- http://www.debian.org/
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