Package: equivs Version: 2.0.8 Severity: normal Hi,
the man page of equivs suggests that it is possible to name a directory as target of a Files: directive: $ cat example.ctl Section: non-free/kernel Package: firmware-radeon-nonfree Description: Binary firmware for Radeon graphics This package contains the binary firmware for Radeon graphics which are not included in the linux-firmware-image deb. Copyright: LICENSE.radeon Files: R600_rlc.bin /lib/firmware/radeon/ This, however, does not work: $ equivs-build example.ctl dh_testdir <snip> dpkg-deb: building package `firmware-radeon-nonfree' in `../firmware-radeon-nonfree_1.0_all.deb'. dh_builddeb: Compatibility levels before 5 are deprecated. The package has been created. Attention, the package has been created in the current directory, not in ".." as indicated by the message above! [21/48]mh@fan:~/packages/firmware-radeon-nonfree$ dpkg-deb -x firmware-radeon-nonfree_1.0_all.deb deb [22/49]mh@fan:~/packages/firmware-radeon-nonfree$ find deb/ deb/ deb/usr deb/usr/share deb/usr/share/doc deb/usr/share/doc/firmware-radeon-nonfree deb/usr/share/doc/firmware-radeon-nonfree/README.Debian deb/usr/share/doc/firmware-radeon-nonfree/copyright deb/usr/share/doc/firmware-radeon-nonfree/changelog.gz deb/lib deb/lib/firmware deb/lib/firmware/radeon [23/50]mh@fan:~/packages/firmware-radeon-nonfree$ ls -al deb/lib/firmware/radeon -rw-r--r-- 1 mh mh 3.0K Jul 31 08:56 deb/lib/firmware/radeon [24/51]mh@fan:~/packages/firmware-radeon-nonfree$ Including the full target path including the target file name (like in R600_rlc.bin /usr/lib/firmware/radeon/R600_rlc.bin) seems to work. Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-zgws1 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages equivs depends on: ii debhelper 8.9.3 helper programs for debian/rules ii dpkg-dev 1.16.0.3 Debian package development tools ii fakeroot 1.16-1 tool for simulating superuser priv ii make 3.81-8.1 An utility for Directing compilati ii perl 5.12.4-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction equivs recommends no packages. equivs suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
