That’s exactly how it’s done in the PHP packages. If you see a different
content in the debian/control, it means the packages were not generated in the
clean build environment.
Ondřej
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Ondřej Surý (He/Him)
> On 23. 1. 2022, at 15:09, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Looks like the php-* PECL packages are getting their debian/control generated
> at build time from a debian/control.in.
>
> If you didn't know, this is *NOT* policy compliant. The policy clearly says
> source packages must have a not-generated debian/control in good shape
> (though I haven't taken the time to find where this is written in the policy,
> I just know it's forbidden...). Please stop doing this.
>
> If you still need to generate it, then you can have a look how the Linux
> kernel package does it. They generate the debian/control from control.in
> thanks to some internal tooling, but save the debian/control in the generated
> form in their source package. That may be a nice workaround, and the better
> way to go for you.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Thomas Goirand (zigo)
>
