building the package to alter the packaging

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 12:05 +0100, Jonathan Riddell 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.
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.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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