At 22:42 -0700 1999-04-26, Joey Hess wrote:
I was assumming that policy no longer existed, for some reason, and that dpkg-souce could handle it. Tests show it does... does anyone know if this is ok to do nowadays?
I have had dpkg-source fail to handle new dirs at the top-level, I have never had problems with dirs below 'debian'. I thought dpkg-source needed GNU patch anyway.
Ah, the packaging manual says:
All the directories in the diff must exist, except the `debian'
subdirectory of the top of the source tree, which will be created
by `dpkg-source' if necessary when unpacking.
Then we get into the "is the packaging manual policy" argument. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) Debian GNU/Linux Developer <URL:mailto:jk@espy.org> <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org> <URL:http://web.espy.org/> <URL:http://www.debian.org/>