On la, 2008-01-26 at 20:37 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 08:58:27PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: > > I just tried this on madwifi, and it only pulled me contents of debian/ > > directory. Now I can't use that to anything, since there is no matching > > upstream sources available. I wonder if it would make sense to require > > that the Vcs- fields points to something that can actually be built. Now > > I have to go wandering where to get the matching upstream.. > > If I were you I would have tried "fakeroot debian/rules > get-orig-source", which is the policy mandated target to retrieve > orig.tar.gz.
Roberto already pointed out that get-orig-source is optional, not mandatory, but I'm wondering about the fakeroot. Why should the get-orig-source target be run as root, or even as a fake root? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
