[zqb-all]

dpkg-source drop *.so, use .so.1 to bypass

[ksco]

Not sure I understand this, why would we need this?

[zqb-all]

dpkg-source drop *.so

bianbu@D102:~$ dpkg-source --format='3.0 (native)' -b box64
dpkg-source: info: using source format '3.0 (native)'
dpkg-source: info: building box64 in ./box64_0.4.4.tar.xz
dpkg-source: info: building box64 in ./box64_0.4.4.dsc
bianbu@D102:~$ tar -tf ./box64_0.4.4.tar.xz | grep 'libwemeet_unlock_shim.so' 

This patch attempts to bypass this rule. But I now feel this approach is too complicated; I'll look for a simpler method.

[ksco]

okay, but this is not the first .so binary we ship, how others bypass the check?

[zqb-all]

It seems that by default only *.so files are deleted, so renaming it to libwemeet_unlock_shim.so.1 will also keep it.

[zqb-all]

Alternatively, we can modify the Debian configuration file to stop filtering out .so files:
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debmake-doc/ch08.en.html#tar-ignore

Its changes would be similar to:

diff --git a/debian/source/options b/debian/source/options                                                                                          
new file mode 100644                                                                                                                                
index 000000000..7a80e66ba                                                                                                                          
--- /dev/null                                                                                                                                       
+++ b/debian/source/options                                                                                                                         
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@                                                                                                                                    
+# Keep the usual dpkg-source tar exclusions, except *.so: the prebuilt                                                                             
+# x86_64 guest shim is required by the package install step.                                                                                       
+tar-ignore=*.a                                                                                                                                     
+tar-ignore=*.la                                                                                                                                    
+tar-ignore=*.o                                                                                                                                     
+tar-ignore=.*.sw?                                                                                                                                  
+tar-ignore=*/*~                                                                                                                                    
+tar-ignore=,,*                                                                                                                                     
+tar-ignore=.[#~]*                                                                                                                                  
+tar-ignore=.arch-ids                                                                                                                               
+tar-ignore=.arch-inventory                                                                                                                         
+tar-ignore=.be                                                                                                                                     
+tar-ignore=.bzr                                                                                                                                    
+tar-ignore=.bzr.backup                                                                                                                             
+tar-ignore=.bzr.tags                                                                                                                               
+tar-ignore=.bzrignore                                                                                                                              
+tar-ignore=.cvsignore                                                                                                                              
+tar-ignore=.deps                                                                                                                                   
+tar-ignore=.git                                                                                                                                    
+tar-ignore=.gitattributes                                                                                                                          
+tar-ignore=.gitignore                                                                                                                              
+tar-ignore=.gitmodules                                                                                                                             
+tar-ignore=.gitreview                                                                                                                              
+tar-ignore=.hg                                                                                                                                     
+tar-ignore=.hgignore                                                                                                                               
+tar-ignore=.hgsigs                                                                                                                                 
+tar-ignore=.hgtags                                                                                                                                 
+tar-ignore=.mailmap                                                                                                                                
+tar-ignore=.mtn-ignore                                                                                                                             
+tar-ignore=.shelf                                                                                                                                  
+tar-ignore=.svn                                                                                                                                    
+tar-ignore=CVS                                                                                                                                     
+tar-ignore=DEADJOE
+tar-ignore=RCS                                                                                                                                     
+tar-ignore=_MTN                                                                                                                                    
+tar-ignore=_darcs                                                                                                                                  
+tar-ignore={arch}

This long list was generated by LLM. I’m just pasting it here to help illustrate the general form of the changes.

[ksco]

I'm okay with the current patch.