Hi,

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Steffen Moeller wrote:
> I moved the debian folder of an otherwise workign package into a separate 
> directory
> and then symlinked to it. This is helpful as a preparation for 
> svn-buildpackage
> with propset mergeWithUpstream 1 debian .

Where was the target directory?

Was it outside of the source package tree?

> dpkg-source was not happy, which is misleading:

Why is it misleading? the debian.tar.gz is supposed to represent the
debian directory, it would be misleading if it didn't contain it...

Do you mean we should support this or do you mean the error message should
be more explicit?

Cheers,
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