Hello, On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Jörg Sommer wrote: > > Do *not* get the upstream .tar.gz which may have changed for some > > mysterious reason. > > I don't think the upstream tar.gz have changed, but your orig.tar.gz is > not the same as the upstream tar.gz. This happens if the orig.tar.gz was > repacked to rename the top directory to <package>-<version>. > dpkg-buildpackage -S does this as described by Policy C.4.
Section C.4 describes how to unpack the source without dpkg-source not how it is repacked by dpkg-buildpackage --- at least in my local copy of "debian-policy". If the upstream source package is already in the form of a .tar.gz there is little reason to repack the source. In particular, the manner in which dpkg-source unpacks the source ensures that "rename the top directory to <package>-<version>" is generally not a good enough reason to repack the source. For large enough packages, repacking with "gzip -9 --rsyncable" may be a good enough reason. (Though policy C.3 asserts that the Debian .tar.gz should *always* be "gzip -9" compressed so I am probably wrong about the "large enough" part). In any case if this is done then it *must* be documented in debian/changelog and/or README.Debian-source. Regards, Kapil. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
