On 28/12/15 08:03, Francois Marier wrote: > On 2015-12-28 at 07:44:01, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> Yes, I was in a repository with a ".git" directory >> >> I frequently build packages that way when I am tinkering with them so it >> would be good to find a way to support that reliably. Maybe upstream >> needs to test for some environment variable or the existence of some >> other file that tells it not to do this ChangeLog update. > > Thanks for confirming. I agree that the check done upstream could be better > though I'm not sure exactly what it should be. >
My own approach to things like this has been to use an environment variable I create a patch against upstream's build script, so it checks for the environment variable. Then I send that to upstream through Github or whatever they use. Then I set the environment variable in debian/rules