On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 11:18:35PM +0100, Mariusz Przygodzki wrote: > Upstream sources have no icon for some application. > How I can add an icon to debian/ in other format than xpm ? > When I try to do it with icon.png I receive message: > > dpkg-source: cannot represent change to debian/icon.png: binary file contents > changed > > The above message is very logical but I am still trying to find some > workaround and I don't want to change *.orig.tar.gz. > > Any suggestion?
Try encoding the binary file with uuencode, shar or a similar tool, and decoding it in debian/rules. Don't forget to Build-Depend on sharutils (or whatever) if you do this. -- - mdz
