Re: what's the right way to auto-create debian/control?
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:46:34PM -0500, Eric Cooper wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 06:12:28PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > This is indeed, as you noted, because policy mandates no modification of the
> > build-depends at build time, and since we want to modify build-depends, we
> > have to call debian/rules debian/control ourself before actually building the
> > packages.
>
> OK, thanks Zack and Sven for clarifying this.
>
> It seems like it would still be useful to have a consistent
> debian/rules target for doing these updates when the ABI changes, so
> that it can be scripted and applied to all of the OCaml packages in
> the repository.
The canonical way is naturally debian/control for target, as the rule creates
this file. This is being used all over (parted, kernel, etc), so i believe it
is the sane one to chose.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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