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Re: Generating debian package using cmake (take 3)

Subject: Re: Generating debian package using cmake (take 3)
From: Felipe Sateler <fsateler@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:20:10 +0200
Newsgroups: linux.debian.devel

Steve Langasek wrote:

>> It is okay to have the debian directory in your tarball but, if you go down
>> this road, it will be desirable that the Debian maintainer/sponsor for your
>> package has commit access to the SVN repository.
> 
> Even if this is the case, it is still annoying for NMUers to have to deal
> with not being able to delete files from the debian/ directory as part of an
> NMU (which can plausibly be required in order to fix a bug), or equally
> annoying for upstream to have to release a new upstream version in order to
> remove a file from the debian/ directory.

AFAIK, dpkg-buildpackage calls clean before build unless explicitly told not to,
so you could delete them on clean.

-- 

  Felipe Sateler


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