On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 01:49:19PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > I appreciate your efforts, but i'm sorry: i still have not seen a reply to
> > > last mail from Branden:
> > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Please could you provide references in the form of
> > http://lists.debian.org/... so that we can track these down?
>
> Here it is:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2003/debian-policy-200311/msg00092.html
>
> Note that http://lists.debian.org autmomatically add link to messages
> matching Message-ID.
How? I haven't figured out how to search by Message-ID.
> However, Branden question belong more to debian-dpkg than here.
In response to Branden's question (does debian/control already have to
exist when the package is unpacked), I would suggest the following:
Before debian/rules build* is run, one has to check the
build-dependencies. So at this point, at least the source section of
debian/control must exist. And since this field (whatever form it
eventually takes) would exist in the source section of debian/control,
and would not be needed until after the build-dependencies are
checked, there should be no problem.
And then again, we can always use debian/interfaces or
debian/rules.targets or something similar instead....
Julian
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