[bringing this discussion on to debian-embedded - Neil, julian (devscripts maintainer) and I have been discussing how to layout emdebian SVN and implement emdebian metadata in most supportable, but still functional fashion (considering a patching approach, rather than $DEBIAN_DIR ]
On 2006-11-07 04:49 +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 02:19:07AM +0000, Wookey wrote: > > On 2006-11-06 20:52 +0000, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > > > We'll need a customised wrapper around dpkg-buildpackage no matter what > > > else is done - this can be just one part of that wrapper. Even if the > > > wrapper only calls emlocale [1] and dumps ./usr/share/doc/* to > > > /dev/null it'll need to handle debian/* data differently to Debian > > > itself. > > > > Wasn't the whole point of Julian's suggestions that once we had > > constructed a suitable new source package with the emdebian diff, that > > the tools wouldn't need to change at all? I like that concept. > > dpkg-cross already diverts dpkg-buildpackage - doing it again is not > > an option if you have that installed. > > Stuff. Since dpkg-buildpackage calls dpkg-source, we'll be stuffed as > there's no obvious way we can use the standard dpkg-source. A previous incarmnation of this work used the presence of the EMDEBIAN environment variable to change the behaviour of tools where necesary. dpkg-cross can also uses it to do different things. Perhaps that is the way to get it to transparently DTRT. > Ah, then again, maybe we should just go with the standard dpkg-source > after all, and have other scripts handle the SVN side of things? > > That opens up a very different way of thinking.... Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
