On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 05:05:39PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to create a multi-source tarball for scipy in its experimental > branch[1]. Upstream includes a set of git submodules in its build > process. I intended to merge all these submodules in a single > scipy_1.10.0.orig-submodules.tar.gz. This tarball is created with a > script[2] which makes sure that the exact directory structure as it is > used by upstream is conserved. This directory layout is needed in the > build process. Unfortunately `dpkg-source -x` extracts the content of > the submodules tarball into a subdirectory submodules/. > > Is there any trick to unpack this tarball right into the root? > Otherwise I need to do some symlinks workaround in d/rules to provide > all files where these are needed.
Not that I know of; this is the design of the multi-source tarball setup: each component tarball is extracted into a directory with the name of the component. Best wishes, Julian