Subject: Re: Is there any opposition to a debian/ top-level subdir?
From: Aaron Lehmann (aaronl@vitelus.com)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2001 - 16:17:15 CST
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:17:37AM -0800, Paul Rohr wrote:
> 2. Add a Debian-specific "make distribution" target which runs a script to
> do all the necessary rearranging to create a single massive source tarball
> which meets all their constraints (top-level Debian directory, packages in
> the same tarball, etc.) Sounds like a very easy script to write, no?
>
> The remaining administrative burden to type "make distribution" before
> uploading sounds pretty reasonable.
Unfortunately it isn't. Debian packages are often built by machines,
which is one of the reasons that the debian/ top-level subdir is
required by debian policy.
For example, when the Alpha autobuilder tried to compile something
non-standard like this, the results wouldn't be pretty.
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