Hi,
On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 10:37:38PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> > > Please migrate away from such series files and consider alternatives
> > > such differing source packages or modify the build process to behave
> > > conditionally or to conditionally patch files explicitly.
> […]
> > is there a documented way to actually do that in a simple/maintainable way
>
> I'm not aware of a documented way that matches this description, alas.
Indeed, the ctte decision didn't provide any migration path.
> I've had some brief discussions with in Mattia (CC'd) that might be
> useful though; he had migrated away from an foo.series in another
> package and I had mooted writing a possible "include"-able .mk snippet.
I moved avay from foo.series in hexchat.
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/hexchat/commit/dd1b936d907d664c0f9e10119778d99228591f60
That thing seems to work correctly, but it's kind of horrible. At least
you don't have to distiguish between ubuntu-specific and debian-specific
patches.
Another way would be to wrap the ubuntu specific code in #ifdef and set
that conditionally in d/rules.
--
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Mattia Rizzolo
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