Bill Mitchell writes ("Re: watch-1.0-2"):
> Gunzip will choke on a zero-length compressed file, so I've been
> gzipping a file which contains a single newline to provide a .diff.gz
> file in this situation (legally gzipped, and legally empty of diffs).Wibble. > Could whoever owns the packaging guidelines please clarify this? > Is the .diff.gz file required, even if not strictly needed? No, it's not required (as you could tell from the dpkg release announcements, for example). > Personally, I'd consider this a reasonable requirement, since lack of > diffs tends to break things (e.g., Ian Jackson's recent proposal for a > new packaging format). No, it doesn't break that either. *sigh* > If diffs are optional, I'll modify dchanges(1) to consider them optional. Please do so. Ian.
