few doubts about the app dev upload process

[Steve Langasek]

Hi Daniel,

On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 11:36:25AM +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> 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.

The intent is to allow specifying an /opt build context by way of an
environment variable, and to have debhelper support this directly, without
having to make any changes to the package itself.  However, the exact design
hasn't been nailed down so far; in my initial discussion, debhelper upstream
was resistant to this idea, so we'll probably have to go through a few
iterations to arrive at something that will be upstreamable.

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