building the package to alter the packaging

[Scott Kitterman]

Jonathan Riddell <jriddell at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>In traditional packaging I would often build the package with debuild
>then make some changes based on the compile (edit .install files, add
>.symbols files etc) then check it works with debuild -nc then tidy up
>with debuild -S.
>
>Is there an equivalent in UDD with bzr-builddeb?  If I run bzr
>builddeb it will finish the compile and clean the build tree so I
>don't get a chance to look at the resulting tree.  One messy way is to
>alter the changelog so it doesn't have my e-mail in it then it will
>complain that it can't sign the result and keep the build tree around.
>I can then edit that, use debuild -nc, clean it with debuild -S and
>copy the result back, but it's not very elegant.
>
See https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr-builddeb/+bug/499684 . What you want, I think, is -- -nc

Scott K