Joey Hess <[email protected]> writes:
> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> when building a package that produces udebs with
>>
>> dh_gencontrol -- -v$(OTHER_VERSION)
>
> I doubt there is ever a worthwhile reason to do that.
We build single source packages for Squeeze, Lucid and Precise. Since
that results in different binaries we use dh_gencontrol --
-v$(OTHER_VERSION) to reflect what distribution the package was compiled
for.
>> the filename for the udebs is generated wrong. The attached patch
>> corrects this by prefering the version information from DEBIAN/control
>> if possible.
>
> It's sufficiently ugly that I would much rather wait for dpkg-deb to
> get support for either
That would leave wheezy buggy. Why not accept the patch till then?
> a. Creating udebs itself
> b. Having a flag to specify the filename extension
>
> In the meantime, dh_builddeb already has a --filename option that can be
> used.
That would mean rewriting the debian/rules file in package specific ways
instead of one simple fix in debhelper. So I would rather see that fixed
in the tools than work around it in individual sources.
MfG
Goswin
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