few doubts about the app dev upload process

Daniel Holbach daniel.holbach at ubuntu.com
Mon Feb 4 10:36:25 UTC 2013


Hello,

On 02.02.2013 06:51, Bhavani Shankar R wrote:
> Was just going through the app dev upload process and the section on
> dh relocation and I have a couple of doubts here.
> 
> 1. Will we interface a custom rules file like the one we are having
> for various apps wrt arb and use lintian to warn that the package
> doesnt confer to the template we use. (which should prompt a template
> script change in pkgme)
> 
> 2. Will we customize and introduce a /opt condition in debuild such
> that debuild fails with an error if package is not building out of
> /opt (which should prompt a script change in
> dpkg-buildpackage-snapshot in devscripts I guess)

I'm CCing Steve Langasek and James Westby into the discussion. I hope
they can help shed some light on this.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppDevUploadProcess#A.2BAC8-opt.2BAC8_Build_Relocation
is probably the section of to-do items we are talking about.

Have a great day,
 Daniel

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