Hi, On 10/09/2014 16:38, Ian Jackson wrote: > ... I had thought that the stuff in .pc is necessary for dpkg-source > to be able to build the package, and unpack the result. > > If I can feed a .pc-less source tree to dpkg-source -b and get > roughtly the right output then that would obviously be a big > improvement.
No, it's not necessary: you can build the source package even without unpacking the upstream sources, that is in a directory containing just debian/. I use that all the time. Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54369f4b.2050...@debian.org