Bug#270192: gail_1.6.6-2(hppa/unstable): FTBFS: requires files outside of build tree.

[J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)]

On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 20:24:10 -0600, lamont@debian.org wrote:
> > Extracting upstream tarball ../gail_1.6.6.orig.tar.gz gunzip: /build/buildd/gail-1.6.6/../gail_1.6.6.orig.tar.gz: No such file or directory

Ah, that explains why things did work with pbuilder.

gail's build system requires that yucky ".orig.tar.gz isn't .orig but
contains upstream's tarball" setup. That should be easy to fix, except for
figuring out how to replace the .orig.tar.gz.

Ray
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