Re: [Condor-devel] Debain port showstopper

[guillaume pernot <gpernot@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,

Le jeudi 5 avril 2007 23:33, Peter Keller a écrit :
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:40:26PM +0200, guillaume pernot wrote:
> > for addition in debian's archive, and thus, massive adoption by debian 
users, 
> > there is still the "free-but-not-so-free" licence problem :(
> 
> Yeah, we'll deal with that later....

i hope so ;)

> 
> However, I do have one more question about the clipped port.
> 
> In the port you gave back to us, the debian/ directory was in the
> toplevel.  Exactly why is that there, does it have to be there, and
> if I move it to a different place, do I have to adjust anything inside
> of the directory?  It is complicated to have things like debian/, DOC,
> and README in the toplevel directory (the latter two I moved into the
> debian/ directory).

hum, debian/ directory is mandatory for building debian package. it holds 
everything needed by dpkg-buildpackage : debian/control lists dependencies 
and package description, debian/rules is a Makefile fragment used to 
configure/build/install/clean source tree, debian/tmp holds installed tree 
etc...

i don't know any debian-method to tell dpkg-buildpackage to get its files from 
any other directory. moreover, debian/rules assumes everything built will go 
in debian/condor...

IMHO, the most simple and clean solution may be to move debian/ directory into 
another place (together with redhat and al. packaging infos) and make a 
symlink to it at build time.

regards,
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