That’s exactly how it’s done in the PHP packages. If you see a different content in the debian/control, it means the packages were not generated in the clean build environment.
Ondřej -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> (He/Him) > On 23. 1. 2022, at 15:09, Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > Looks like the php-* PECL packages are getting their debian/control generated > at build time from a debian/control.in. > > If you didn't know, this is *NOT* policy compliant. The policy clearly says > source packages must have a not-generated debian/control in good shape > (though I haven't taken the time to find where this is written in the policy, > I just know it's forbidden...). Please stop doing this. > > If you still need to generate it, then you can have a look how the Linux > kernel package does it. They generate the debian/control from control.in > thanks to some internal tooling, but save the debian/control in the generated > form in their source package. That may be a nice workaround, and the better > way to go for you. > > Cheers, > > Thomas Goirand (zigo) >
