On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > Joey Hess has done some work to allow debhelper to handle the case of files > under debian/ that should be ignored (since they can't be deleted as part of > a diff); I'm afraid I don't know the current state of this work and haven't > heard of it being much used in practice to date, so I don't know that it's > very practical - I certainly think it's ugly to have to do things this way, > even if it's /possible/ to work around upstream shipping debian/ in the > tarball.
BTW, the new source format "3.0 (quilt)" will always ignore any pre-existing debian dir in the .orig tarball. It will completely remove that directory (if it exists) before unpacking the debian tarball. So this is a problem that is approaching its end. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
