[Pkg-lyx-devel] Problems with the automatic control file generation

[Sven Hoexter]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 07:43:04PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote:
> Georg Baum:
> > The control* files should not be in svn, only the template. Then you don't 
> > have that problem (assuming that I got the dependencies right)
> 
> I assume you mean the control file.
> 
> Just make sure it's created by the clean target.
dpkg-buildpackage can not build the package without a control file so you've
to generate the control file by hand which renders the logic in the rules file
useless (IMHO).
The FORCE: target looks like a solution but I'm not sure if such hacks should
be placed in a Debian package.

Sven
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