Bug#1092006: epics-base: procedure to update debian/control

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:epics-base
Version: 7.0.8.1+dfsg1-6
Severity: minor

Hi. While including the diff from Niels today I noticed
that debian/control depends on debian/control.in
in this way:

debian/control: debian/control.in debian/rules
         [commands to generate debian/control]
         [...]

override_dh_auto_clean: debian/control


This will probably work if the code was in a static
directory, but I believe it's not robust enough
when the code is downloaded from git (due to
timestamps not being really meaningful).

In other words, it is possible that the required
update does not happen at all. So, it would be nice
to change it slightly so that it becomes impossible to miss
by design.

As an example of what I mean, I have some
code with similar functionality in base-files:

override_dh_auto_build:
         sh debian/check-md5sum-etc profile

which makes absolutely sure that share/profile.md5sums
matches share/profile.

I would propose a patch for epics-base but I have
not thought about it yet.

Thanks.