>>I don't think it's good to have a symlink for debian/control. If the script fails then everything
>> should fail in a spectacular manner, and not act like it has a way to proceed.
It sounds like the symlink is required because dpkg-buildpackage wants to parse a few non ABI (hopefully!) fields from debian/control prior to kicking off the full build (and performing the autogeneration).
>>I don't think it's good to have a symlink for debian/control. If the script fails then everything
>> should fail in a spectacular manner, and not act like it has a way to proceed.
It sounds like the symlink is required because dpkg-buildpackage wants to parse a few non ABI (hopefully!) fields from debian/control prior to kicking off the full build (and performing the autogeneration).
LGTM