Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes:
hi Russ,
> Felix Natter <fnat...@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> as far as I understand Debian packaging, the .orig.tar.{gz,bz2} shall
>> have the same checksum as the original upstream tarball (by using
>> pristine-tar). This worked for me when the upstream tarball is *.tar.gz,
>> but in a package libidw-java, where the upstream tarball is *.zip, this
>> does not seem to work:
>
> *.zip is not a supported upstream compression format in the Debian
> archive, so git-buildpackage is converting it to something else for you.
> You will have to repack an upstream distribution in *.zip format to
> something else, I'm afraid, and therefore won't be able to use the
> upstream distribution verbatim.
So I add a download rule:
get-orig-source:
uscan --force-download --repack
and use the result as input to git-import-orig and everything should be
ok?
Thanks and Best Regards,
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Felix Natter
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