In <4a394fad.1060...@shaw.ca>, Dave Kerr wrote: >Well the system e-mailed me back and said : > >--- > >Your package does not seem to be lintian clean. >'lintian' is a tool to verify if source package contain obvious >packaging errors. These warnings/errors were found: >W: kabikaboo source: native-package-with-dash-version >N: >N: Native packaging should only be used if a piece of software was >written >N: specifically to be turned into a Debian package. In this case, the >N: version number should not contain a Debian revision part. >N: >N: Native source packages are sometimes created by accident. In most >cases >N: the reason is the location of the original source tarball. > dpkg-source >N: searches for this in > ../package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
You should be using non-native packaging for your package. Fixing this is probably just an issue of renaming your .orig.tar.gz. If your package is version 1.0-1 you should be using "package_1.0.orig.tar.gz" not "package_1.0-1.orig.tar.gz". In general the .orig.tar.gz name will not include the debian revision part of the non-native package version. >I swear I was tricked by the "lintian" tool. Lintian is undergoing constant improvement. You should make sure and use the lintian version from Sid. You can use apt-pinning to get lintian from Sid while continuing to get other packages from stable/testing/whatever. If you are using pbuilder to build your package inside a Sid chroot (packages for uploading to unstable should always be built in a Sid environment), you can use a post-build hook to run Sid's lintian against the package. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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