I'm changing my mind about uploading a plain .tar.gz to Debian instead of .orig.tar.gz + 20-byte .diff.gz file (an empty .diff).
I can't seem to be able to use an existing pristine PKG_VSN.tar.gz file. dpkg-buildpackag insists on rebuilding it. I don't want a different md5sum on the tar file. Am I wrong? Is there a way to do that? Peter I wrote: > Well, in this case, the author is a good friend of mine and has > been for over 10 years. He recently put up the sources at > sourceforge and I have write-access. > > I'm thinking inclusion might be good. I'm not sure about > .orig.tar.gz or plain .tar.gz uploads to Debian though (and I > didn't think of the Debian version number issue until Peter > Karlsson bought it up). > > I suppose I could upload as .tar.gz with no Debian version > sub-number if I know the build to be clean (no diffs). In the > unlikely event that I later need to patch it for Debian only (say > during a freeze), then I can do the second upload as Debian > version -1 and includes sources as .orig.tar.gz
