[pkg-nvidia-devel] [n-g-d 190xx] directory layout proposal for moving to source format 3.0 (quilt)

[Russ Allbery]

Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:

> eventually the following directory layout will be suitable for moving to
> format 3.0 (quilt). Primarily that requires removing everything from the
> root and putting it under debian/ (so it goes into the .debian.tar.gz
> instead of some patch). Fortunately after all my patches not that much
> is left in the root directory :-)

> debian/
>     module-source/    (better name welcome)
>         debian/       (from /debian.binary/)
>         Makefile      (from /Makefile)
>         conftest.h    (from /conftest.h)
>         conftest.sh   (from /conftest.sh)
>         patches.h     (from /patches.h)

> debian/module-source would contain in one place everything that is
> copied over the nvidia module source.

I usually (such as for OpenAFS) just use module, but module-source is
certainly fine as well.  That sounds great.

> Should we add $(debian.binary)/source/format = 1.0, too? Just for
> completeness?

> Since the package is not unpacked/built the "regular" way (but using m-a
> (or even manually) which does 'tar xfj' instead of 'dpkg-source -x') I
> don't see any way to use a source format other than 1.0 there.

Yes, I agree.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>