Question

I need to make a .deb for our software, that includes a copy of Drupal. I’ve had to patch Drupal, so I can’t use the stock Drupal from the distro. I want the outcome to be a file named drupal6-rs_6.16_all.deb, but because in my control file it’s a subpackage, it’s “inheriting” the version of my main package, so I end up with a package drupal6-rs_6.0.6_all.deb (6.0.6 is the version of our own codebase).

I would prefer to be able to generate the Drupal package from within the same debian/* description, rather than making a separate debian/* subtree for Drupal alone.

Can this be done? I know that with RPM it is possible to override the version of a subpackage, but if I add Version: 6.16 to the subpackage’s debian/control header, it (a) highlights differently in vim to the other header entries, and (b) has no effect.

Answer 1

I should RTFM sometimes. Look at man dh_installchangelogs. There’s a reason it’s got an s suffixed to it!

Yes, it seems you can override the version of a binary package in a multiple-binary source package.