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Re: An alternative to deb-make Re: deb-make



Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> Thus, my utility, and I think common sense, dictates a simple
> structure:
> 
>         debian/
>                 package1/
>                 package1-dev/
>                 package-bin/
> 
> Files common to all outputs, including rules, control and no doubt
> others that I don't remember, all sit in the /debian directory.
> 
> Other files, including conffiles, shlibs, etc, are put in the
> subdirectory corresponding to the name of the deb file for which they
> are intended.

If you mean that the conffiles etc. are to be placed in those
subdirectories in the Debian source packages that I am afraid that that
is against the standard.  See the mailing list archives for discussions
on this issue.  That was the reason debmake had to put those files in
the /debian directory instead.

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