> AFAIK, this is not OK. Though I used to do it myself too. The > correct way, I believe is to make a tar.gz file, like the one which > is online, and build the Debian package from that.
To achieve this I use the "deb-makepkg" script below. You need to
adjust the BUILDIR to wherever you build your Debian packages. Next
you cd to your working copy of your package, and type :
deb-makepkg <package> <version>
What this does:
* "make dist" to build the .tar.gz then renames it to
package_version.orig.tar.gz
* extracts the tar.gz
* scans debian/CVS to know what files are actually part of the CVS
module (except .cvsignore files) and copies these files to debian/ in
the directory where the .tar.gz was extracted
* runs dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
That way you have a non-native package with a clean diff!
Jeremy
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#!/bin/bash
# $Id: deb-makepkg,v 1.4 2003/03/11 17:26:22 sharky Exp $
BUILDIR=~sharky/dev/debian
SRCDIR=`pwd`
BPACKAGE=$1
BVERSION=$2
if [ -z "$2" ]; then
echo "Usage: deb-makepkg package version"
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -f ChangeLog ]; then
echo "ChangeLog not found!"
exit 2
fi
if [ ! -f debian/CVS/Entries ]; then
echo "debian/CVS/Entries not found!"
exit 3
fi
rm -f ${BPACKAGE}-${BVERSION}.tar.gz
make dist
if [ ! -f ${BPACKAGE}-${BVERSION}.tar.gz ]; then
echo "Cannot find ${BPACKAGE}-${BVERSION}.tar.gz"
exit 4
fi
# clean up build directory
if [ ! -d $BUILDIR ]; then
echo "Cannot find directory $BUILDIR"
exit 5
fi
rm -rf ${BUILDIR}/${BPACKAGE}-${BVERSION}
rm -f ${BUILDIR}/${BPACKAGE}_${BVERSION}-*.diff.gz
# copy and extract archive
cp ${BPACKAGE}-${BVERSION}.tar.gz
${BUILDIR}/${BPACKAGE}_${BVERSION}.orig.tar.gz
cd $BUILDIR
tar zxvf ${BPACKAGE}_${BVERSION}.orig.tar.gz
# enter directory and copy Debian files
mkdir ${BPACKAGE}-${BVERSION}/debian
cd ${BPACKAGE}-${BVERSION}
for debfile in `cat ${SRCDIR}/debian/CVS/Entries | sed -n -e
's/^\/\(.*\)\/1\(\.[0-9]\+\)\+\/.*\/\/$/\1/p'`; do
[ $debfile != .cvsignore ] && cp ${SRCDIR}/debian/${debfile} debian
done
# build package
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
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