few doubts about the app dev upload process

[Bhavani Shankar R]

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Steve Langasek
<steve.langasek at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Thanks a lot for your reply Steve and clearing some of my doubts.

Regards,


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Bhavani Shankar
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