Hi Steffen,
Hello,
Please kindly have a look at
git@salsa.debian.org:med-team/hnswlib.git /
https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/hnswlib
which is one of the dependencies of the pigx-scrnaseq workflow.
This package ships a Python module in a subdirectory. I failed to pass
any "--dir" instructions to pybuild, so I was a bit creative and
added/removed symlinks to ../debian. This seems to do the job. If anyone
out there knows how to do this properly - much appreciated.
I came across this option of adding in "--sourcedirectory" in a random package I was looking at, and applied the same fix to hnswlib as well - it builds with passing autopkgtests.
This reduces the entire hand-crafted debian/rules file into a one-line makefile - and I have pushed the same changes to the other package - "survivor" where I had done the same sort of handcrafting.
Please take a look at my changes and let me know if it looks good.
Whilst the solution was simple, your hand-crafted rules file helped me get deeper insights of how stuff is working exactly, else I usually relied on debhelper to do it's magic. Thanks a lot for that :-)
Kind Regards,
Nilesh