Re: Debian build polishing

From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Fri Mar 08 2019 - 16:58:12 EST


On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 10:10:19PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> > So I really hope your patches don't break this.
>
> It shouldn't (at least I dont intend to). Haven't tried where exactly
> the generated debian/rules file lands in your case.

The full debian directory lands in the O= directory. So presumably
you could make it work for use case if there was a "make O=/build/dir
debian-prepare" which copies the necessary debian/ files into the
build directory and then someone could cd into /build/dir and run
"dpkg-buildpackage"?

- Ted