On Sun, 08 Mar 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> writes: > > > In practice, there's one exception, the debian tarball can contain > > binary files that are installed outside of the debian dir. Those are > > necessary listed in debian/source/include_binaries. > > According to the dpkg-source man page, you mean include-binaries.
Right, indeed. > Is there a complete specification of these new source control files? > (Exact syntax, complete list of control files, etc.) We'll need it to > write Lintian checks, and dpkg-source doesn't seem to have that > information gathered into one place. There's nothing else than the dpkg-source man page. I've noted in my TODO to write a section "File formats". debian/source/format contains only the format (a single line, no leading/trailing spaces allowed, only the first line is read but it's probably best to not allow anything else). debian/source/include-binaries contains one filename per line. Leading and trailing spaces are stripped. Lines starting with a # (possibly prefixed by spaces) are comments and are skipped. Empty lines are not allowed. > Also, the dpkg-source man page implies that Format in the source section > of debian/control is just another way of specifying the format: > > --format=value > Try first the given format for building the source package. If > used multiple times, they are tried in order. It doesn’t > override any explicit Format field in debian/control but it does > override any format given in debian/source/format. > > but from this thread I gather that it shouldn't be used. What should > Lintian do in this area? I'm not sure. I started by using this field and over development, it appeared to me that it was a bad choice. I recycled it as a way to override the format in a quick and dirty way (because dpkg-buildpackage doesn't allow to provide arbitrary arguments to dpkg-source yet). But is this really needed or should I rather simply drop this feature ? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Contribuez à Debian et gagnez un cahier de l'admin Debian Lenny : http://www.ouaza.com/wp/2009/03/02/contribuer-a-debian-gagner-un-livre/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
