Building native packages not ideal

[Michael Vogt]

Currentl pkgme-binary builds native packages, it would be preferable if it would build non-native packages instead and provide a .diff.gz instead to make it quicker to upload packaging only changes. Here is what we commonly do for this in debian/rules:

#!/usr/bin/make -f
# -*- makefile -*-

VERSION=$(shell head -1 debian/changelog | cut -f2 -d" "| tr -d \(\) | cut -f1 -d "-")
PACKAGE_NAME=$(shell head -1 debian/changelog | cut -f1 -d" ")

%:
 dh $@

build-orig-source:
 mkdir -p $(PACKAGE_NAME)-$(VERSION)
 tar --exclude=debian --exclude=\.pc \
  --exclude=$(PACKAGE_NAME)-$(VERSION) -cf - . \
  | ( cd $(PACKAGE_NAME)-$(VERSION) && tar xf - )
 tar -czf ../$(PACKAGE_NAME)_$(VERSION).orig.tar.gz $(PACKAGE_NAME)-$(VERSION)
 $(RM) -r $(PACKAGE_NAME)-$(VERSION)

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This also means that we should no longer set the debian/source/format to "native"

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

The debian/source/format is actually harmful as it will e.g. filter out ".so" files when building native source packages. We should use 1.0 until we the above bug.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

And we need to run "debian/rules build-orig-soruce" manually.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

If we switch to debian/source/format "1.0" (i.e. if lp:~mvo/pkgme/trivial-source-format-default-to-1.0 lands) this becomes less of a issue, its still a nice to have.