building the package to alter the packaging

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 01:24:01PM +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 12:20 +0100, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 01:12:11PM +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > > My guess is that something like "bzr builddeb -- -nc" will leave the
> > > build directory in ../build-area around for inspection. You can then
> > > manually remove it afterwards.
> > 
> > It does but you then have to revert to non UDD commands to finish your
> > packaging and manually copy it back.  Something like bzr bd-do would
> > be more elegant where it puts you in a temporary shell, you can make
> > your changes then exit to have the magically copied back.
> That makes sense. Perhaps this would be useful as a new option to
> bzr-builddeb. Or, alternatively, it would be useful to have "bzr bd-do"
> always build by default and support the current behaviour if -S was
> specified. This would be more consistent with the current "bzr bd"
> interface.

I've reported

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr-builddeb/+bug/816376

Jonathan