Initial braindump for auxiliary build files

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 11:04:05AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:

> To overcome the current sbuild hack for translation tarballs and make
> this facility more generic and extendible, I crafted an initial brain
> dump spec about introducing a proper infrastructure for such auxiliary
> generated files which are not supposed to go into the archive. Thanks
> to LaMont for the initial idea.
> 
> Can you guys please look at the spec and give some comments whether
> this would fit into sbuild/dpkg/archive/Rosetta import? Is there
> anything that can be improved?

I like the basic idea.  Suggestions:

- Since the auxiliary batch has the same file format and same requirements
  as a .changes file, why not make it a .changes file?  The build could
  produce both package_version_arch.changes and
  package_version_arch_<somethingelse>.changes

- Rather than creating dpkg-addauxfile, add a flag to dpkg-distaddfile to
  specify an alternate batch of changes to which to add the file

- Is it even necessary to send the auxiliary files someplace else?  Even if
  they aren't going to end up in the archive proper, it might make sense to
  include them in the same .changes, and process them through the archive
  management software (CCing Daniel Silverstone for input on this)

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 - mdz