-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 14 November 2002 07:16, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > Wednesday 13 November 2002 12.18 skrev Paul Cupis:
> > It should be called noteedit_2.0.16.orig.tar.gz, per the packaging > > manual. > > Meaning the only modification is to change the name? Correct. foo.tgz should be renamed foo_0.1.orig.tar.gz. Only the name changes - - that way the md5 et cetera will be the same for your orig.tar.gz as for the upstream released .tgz. > > I would be inclined to leave it in the orig.tar.gz, but either patch it > > or remove in the build process (in the clean target?). I'm don't have the > > details of how to best do this handy, but iirc, this is the recommended > > solution. > > The problem is that the diff file becomes hard to understand, and you can't > use the same diff file on a later version of the program, but have to > unpack the version matching the diff file first, save the debian dir, and > then unpack the version you want to build, remove the patches to the debian > dir from the diff file, and apply the patches (if any). Therefore I > actually prefer a clean debian dir in the tar file when the patch file is > made. Of if somehow the debian files in the diff file can just completely > replace the old ones with some diff option. If it is possible to make > debian-source to understand that. Yes, it's messy. You should ask upstream to a) remove the upstream debian/ directory, b) allow you to send you changes upstream to the next debian/ directory will be correct or c) not include the upstream debian/ directory in releases. > > Not by you? Bug upstream about it, i think. Again, this is related to > > having a pristine upstream orig.tar.gz if possible (but this is not > > essential). > > So if there are any, I should just leave them and remove them in the clean > target. Yup. Hopefully upstream will be nice about distributing clean tarballs in future. Paul Cupis - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE907bEIzuKV+SHX/kRAl1aAJ0fISypuNCgC4Alvbkr1vOc6Hii1wCfa032 U5c8t+cExVnMjtneGynppp0= =TcyL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
