On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 09:34:17AM -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > I have a bit of a problem applying the updated Danish .po file from > bug # 170562. Once I copy the new da.po file into the po/ directory > and run "fakeroot debian/rules binary", a new da.gmo file is created, > but it is not deleted by "fakeroot debian/rules clean". Then, of > course, running "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot" dies with the error > message > > dpkg-source: cannot represent change to po/da.gmo: binary file contents > changed > > How should I handle this? If I delete po/*.gmo files in the > debian/rules clean target, I expect I will get the same error for > every *.gmo file (since then all of them would exist in the > .orig.tar.gz tarball but not in the Debian source package).
Deleting a file from the Debian source package that's in the .orig.tar.gz just gets you a warning, not a fatal error, so you could do that. Alternatively, you could move the original version aside in the build target and move it back in clean. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]