On 21.09.20 14:46, Nilesh Patra wrote: > > > Hi Steffen, > > On Sun, 6 Sep 2020 at 18:32, Steffen Möller <steffen_moel...@gmx.de > <mailto:steffen_moel...@gmx.de>> wrote: > > Hello, > > Please kindly have a look at > > g...@salsa.debian.org:med-team/hnswlib.git / > https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/hnswlib > <https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/hnswlib> > > which is one of the dependencies of the pigx-scrnaseq workflow. > > This package ships a Python module in a subdirectory. I failed to pass > any "--dir" instructions to pybuild, so I was a bit creative and > added/removed symlinks to ../debian. This seems to do the job. If > anyone > out there knows how to do this properly - much appreciated. > > > I came across this option of adding in "--sourcedirectory" in a random > package I was looking at, and applied the same fix to hnswlib as well > - it builds with passing autopkgtests. > This reduces the entire hand-crafted debian/rules file into a one-line > makefile - and I have pushed the same changes to the other package - > "survivor" where I had done the same sort of handcrafting. > Please take a look at my changes and let me know if it looks good. > > Whilst the solution was simple, your hand-crafted rules file helped me > get deeper insights of how stuff is working exactly, else I usually > relied on debhelper to do it's magic. Thanks a lot for that :-)
That is very much what I was looking for. I knew it was out there, somewhere, but you found it. Many thanks - will upload. Steffen
