On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:54:31PM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 06 Mar 2001, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > * Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What I am proposing is a source package that generates *both* a > > > "main" and a "contrib" .deb. > > > > This is not allowed. > > Or rather, it is... kinda. You can have your source package generate two > sets of .debs depending on how it is built, but you must upload it twice, > with different names (and building different sets of debs by default) to > every section. > > See the fetchmail and fetchmail-ssl source packages for an example. > fetchmail-ssl is an automated transform of the fetchmail source package, > triggered by "make debian/rules select-ssl".
Ah, thanks! I knew I couldn't be the first to run into this situation. > You gain nothing in upload time, but it certains give you less hassle to > only have one single source tree in CVS, for example. Yeah, it's a cute hack. Too bad that the entire source needs to be duplicated, though. -S
