On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Jeremiah C. Foster wrote: --cut-- Hi,
> > The package is still recognized as Debian native, simply because there's > > only a tar.gz, without a diff.gz. It's not sufficient to change the > > version number to 1.4.5-2, you need to create a tarball *without* the > > debian/ directory, call it 1.4.5, add the debian/ directory again and run > > dpkg-source. This way, you will get a diff.gz. > > I don't understand. How do I create a diff.gz? (I know how to use > diff, but what is this a diff of? Two different tarballs?) It is a diff between the original_upstream_source_directory/ and the debianized_tree/ (i.e. upstream_dir/ + debian/ inside). Since you have orig.tar.gz and the debianized tree (upstream_name-x.y + your own debian/ inside) dpkg-source is able to create such diff.gz: dpkg-source -b upstream_namedir-x.y > > > > - Convert debian/copyright to UTF-8 > > > > > > Done. > > > > You converted it to ASCII. Please use UTF-8, use e.g. iconv for that. > > Also, you've removed your own copyright statement for the Debian > > packaging. > > Added my copyright statement back, changed to UTF-8 using > iconv. The `file` command is still saying ASCII however. Since UTF-8 is a superset of ASCII and there are only ASCII characters inside your copyright, therefore file reports ASCII text. However, UTF-8 being a variable length encoding can use more than one (1 to 4 bytes) for each character, depending on the character; for instance had characters like greek letters or german umlauts been in the file (where more than one byte per character is used), `file' wouldn't be reporting ASCII text. > Not sure how > to determine proper encoding. There is no universal method to determine that, that's why iconv has --from-code ;-) In that case, your copyright file is a valid ASCII as well as valid UTF-8. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
