On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 09:49 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 02:42:25PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > 
> > Obviously this doesn't solve the debian/control problem - that would
> > require generating it with/without the libblkid parts depending on
> > target distro.
> 
> One of the things I need to look at, but maybe you know off-hand, is
> whether the debian/rules can safely modify debian/control file.  I
> haven't looked deeply into the underbelly of how dpkg-buildpackage and
> its descendents work to know whether or not that can be done safely.
> If not, we might have to have a separate shell script which is run
> manually that adjusts debian/control and debian/rules file.  That
> would be annoying/unfortunate, but doable.
> 
I humbly submit the following two patches:

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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