James Westby wrote: > However you say > > The .orig.tar.gz from the maintainer's last release is kept in the archive > > but for a native package there is no .orig.tar.gz, there is a .tar.gz.
You're right. I wonder if there's a good way to deal with this discreprency and rename the .tar.gz to .orig.tar.gz. Hmm, I tried with debhelper: mv debhelper_5.0.53.tar.gz debhelper_5.0.53.orig.tar.gz And then building a 5.0.53-0.1 "NMU" using this. Seemed to work ok, the .changes included an upload of the .orig.tar.gz. I think this won't confuse the archive software or anything else. It's not ideal, since it requires a manual step. The other possibility would be to hack dpkg-buildpackage to construct a diff against the .tar.gz and hope that, as you noted, nothing is hardcoded to use .orig.tar.gz. If anyone wants to try either method out, feel free to NMU debhelper for any of its bugs that don't involve adding new features. ;-) -- see shy jo
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
