Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.16.2 Severity: wishlist Hello:
Debian policy 4.9 [1] says this about the get-orig-source target: "This target may be invoked in any directory, and should take care to clean up any temporary files it may have left". If one wants to use let say: TARBALL = $(DEB_SOURCE)_$(DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM).orig.tar.gz and runs for example mkdir -p temp && cd temp && ../debian/rules get-orig-source This will generate several: awk: cannot open debian/control (No such file or directory) tail: cannot open `debian/changelog' for reading: No such file or directory and the get-orig-source routine just keeps going as normal resulting in possibly unwanted behavior. One of the many possible uses for pkg-info.mk is to help with get-orig-source routines. Currently I was testing something similar to # Get the information needed by get-orig-source. # include /usr/share/dpkg/pkg-info.mk # This requires dpkg-dev >= 1.16.1, hardcodes debian/{control,changelog} and # makes get-orig-source fail when called from different paths. DEB_DEBIAN_DIR = $(dir $(firstword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))) DEB_SOURCE = $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog -l$(DEB_DEBIAN_DIR)/changelog |\ awk '/^Source: / { print $$2 }') DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM = $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog -l$(DEB_DEBIAN_DIR)/changelog |\ sed -nr '/^Version:/s/Version: (.*:)?(.*)-(.*)/\2/p') If possible adding a DEB_DEBIAN_DIR variable and -l$(DEB_DEBIAN_DIR)/changelog to dpkg-parsechangelog in pkg-info.mk should make the script work as before and with get-orig-source. Also DEB_DEBIAN_DIR is useful if one uses something like REMOVE_DFSG = $(DEB_DEBIAN_DIR)/get-orig-source-remove where get-orig-source-remove contains a list of all the files and directories to remove when making a source DFSG-free. Hope this helps and makes sense, Miguel [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-debianrules -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org