On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:02:54AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Hi mentors, > I have received from the upstream author a tutorial that I want to > include in the debian package of "zoggy" which I currently maintain. > The tutorial will be available in the next upstream release of the > software but I like it to appear also in the curren debian package. > The tutorial comes in two flavours: HTML version and .ps.gz version. > > I tried to add it only to the diff.gz but this seems to be impossible > becayse diff used by dpkg-buildpackage doesn't handle binary files. > I can obviously reupload a new .orig.tar.gz but I like to left it equal > to the upstream version. > > Does exists a way to tell dpkg-buildpackage to include also binary diff > in the .diff.gz? > This seems to me almost impossible, but ... you are the mentors :)
Well, you could issue a new tarball of the same version, something like zoggy_0.91a.orig.tar.gz, including the manual, and then have no worry about the .diff.gz. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
