On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 10:43:12AM +0930, David Lloyd wrote: > Roger et al, > > Again, I would reccomend using dpkg-buildpackage, even if you only > > intend to generate the source upload. If you name the source tarball > > (upstream source) <pkg>_<version>.orig.tar.gz and are in the source > > tree (with /debian/ setup) it should generate the .diff.gz based on > > the last changelog version number (in this case 4.81-1). > > Is there any particular reason why one wouldn't use dpkg-buildpackage?
I can't think of a single one, unless you mean using wrappers around dpkg-buildpackage like debuild (but then you're still using dpkg-buildpackage, of course). Don't build source archives by hand; it's error-prone and a waste of your time. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
