On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:26:24AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Uh, what if I want to put the following at the very top of my > > debian/control file? > > > > # $Id$ > > > > I was given to understand that dpkg 1.10.15 or so would be just fine > > with it, whereas dpkg 1.9.21 or so would vomit all over it. > > Placing comments in the leading paragraph may cause problems with older > versions. > > However, for buildds, the build-depends will already be installed by the time > your package is unpacked, so in practice, I doubt this is of much concern. Is there a reason we need to preserve the (presumably existing) requirement that debian/control exist in the .tar.gz or diff.gz? What is debian/control used for during package unpack? -- G. Branden Robinson | If God had intended for man to go Debian GNU/Linux | about naked, we would have been branden@debian.org | born that way. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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