From: Scott James Remnant Subject: Re: [PATCH] blkid: add --disable-libblkid (v2) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:07:41 +0100 Message-ID: <1240409261.2902.4.camel@wing-commander> References: <20090224084434.GF6020@nb.net.home> <20090324121147.GA22386@zelda.netsplit.com> <20090416102241.GA3290@nb.net.home> <1239976118.11603.109.camel@quest> <20090422133304.GP15541@mit.edu> <1240407745.2902.3.camel@wing-commander> <20090422134945.GQ15541@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-ZhQJl+Y9kZ0e7v2nifGX" Cc: Karel Zak , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Kay Sievers To: Theodore Tso Return-path: Received: from zelda.netsplit.com ([87.194.19.211]:36066 "EHLO zelda.netsplit.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751075AbZDVOHu (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:07:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090422134945.GQ15541@mit.edu> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-ZhQJl+Y9kZ0e7v2nifGX Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 09:49 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 02:42:25PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > >=20 > > Obviously this doesn't solve the debian/control problem - that would > > require generating it with/without the libblkid parts depending on > > target distro. >=20 > One of the things I need to look at, but maybe you know off-hand, is > whether the debian/rules can safely modify debian/control file. I > haven't looked deeply into the underbelly of how dpkg-buildpackage and > its descendents work to know whether or not that can be done safely. > If not, we might have to have a separate shell script which is run > manually that adjusts debian/control and debian/rules file. That > would be annoying/unfortunate, but doable. >=20 It's a common practice, -policy only requires that debian/changelog and debian/rules exist. debian/control is parsed by tools run by debian/rules, so it's ok for debian/control to be generated by it. Various packages use debian/control.in or debian/control.m4 or similar. Scott --=20 Scott James Remnant scott@ubuntu.com --=-ZhQJl+Y9kZ0e7v2nifGX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAknvJK0ACgkQSnQiFMl4yK7SvACdEyLxbx8vxf4w9XSh6nDpgFtX VmQAn1ev5xieJyuyzDngs/QWiVA87iq1 =6/qt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ZhQJl+Y9kZ0e7v2nifGX--