Debian Bug report logs - #5044
dpkg-buildpackage and dpkg-source don't agree on what's required in a package

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <torin@daft.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: dpkg-buildpackage and dpkg-source don't agree on what's required in a package

Date: 28 Oct 1996 20:00:45 -0800

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Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.4.0.3

dpkg-buildpackage should at least give a warning when building a diff
file that will be unbuildable by dpkg-source.

I've created various *.ph files for perl and included them in the perl
package since this was a simple and elegant solution.  They just get
installed in the right place.  Unfortunately, dpkg-source -x dies when
it goes to unpack the subdirs of the *.ph tree.

On a second, somewhat related note that is nowhere near as important.
If I have to split the *.ph files out into their own package, dpkg
forces it to be a arch-dependent target since the directory all the
files are in is /usr/lib/perl5/${archname}-linux/5.00307.  I don't have
a problem with messing with a symlink or two in the postinst/prerm but
it seems to defeat the purpose of dpkg to copy a whole tree to a new
location but it's painful for this package to be arch-dependent on a
directory name.  (No, I can't just use a symlink since there can be
other stuff there that really is arch-dependent.)

Darren
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Message #12 received at 5044-maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: postmaster@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl

To: 5044-maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Old bugs need to be looked at

Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:01:17 +0100 (CET)

This is an automated message sent to all bugs older than one year.

This bug is very old. Please take a look at it and see if you can fix it.
If it has already been fixed, please close it.

If you have problems fixing it or if you don't have the time to fix it,
please ask the people on debian-devel@lists.debian.org for help, so that
at least the oldest bugs can be solved before Debian 2.0 is released.

Remco Blaakmeer

Message #17 received at 5044@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cs.leidenuniv.nl>

To: 5044@bugs.debian.org, 5044-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug# 5044: dpkg-buildpackage and dpkg-source don't agree on what's required in a package

Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 15:45:34 +0200

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Can you please give us an example of your problem?

Wichert.

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