On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 01:25:09AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > What should you do if the upstream tarball includes ick like FIFOs, > random junk files and binaries? I tried just using the true upstream > tarball but dpkg-buildpackage took exception both to the FIFO in the > upstream source and to the fact that some of the changes between the > debian-patched tree and the upstream were removal of files... > (The Debian Packaging Manual specifically says that you can only make > certain changes in the 'Debianisation diff' which seems to me to imply > that you have to modify the orig.tar.gz in these cases.) > > [This was just for a deb I was building for my own private use, so I didn't > greatly care -- I just created a cleaned-up orig.tar.gz. But I'm curious > about what the Right Thing would have been.]
I think repacking the .tar.gz is quite reasonable in this case. You have no other solution really. And be sure to flame^H^H^H^H^H politely suggest to the upstream author that they not ship fifos in the .tar.gz. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. http://www.risingsoftware.com/ Phone: +61 3 9894 4788 Fax: +61 3 9894 3362 USA: 1 888 667 7839
