On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 11:47:49PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> For those who haven’t followed, the latest debhelper upload includes the
> following change:
>
> * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
> desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
> format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming
> language
> of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
> Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
> Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
>
> So, to sum it up. Before, you would do in debian/rules:
> sed s/@DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH@/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/
> debian/libfoo.install.in > debian/libfoo.install
>
> Now, you will do in debian/foo.install:
> #! /bin/sh
> sed s/@DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH@/$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/
> << EOF
> …
> EOF
> (Bonus points for implementing this in a different language for each
> package.)
Note you also need to add a chmod +x debian/*.sh in debian/rules, since
apart from debian/rules, nothing has the executable bit after
dpkg-source -x.
Mike
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