Quoting Tong Sun (2013-07-08 16:38:07) [...] > What buried in my original question was "So do you think unpacking > upstream tarball then repack it and name it as > libpam-ssh-agent_0.9.5.orig.tar.gz would solve the problem?" > By repacking, I did mean repack it properly, i.e., changing the > format. I don't understand why it won't work.
It would work, but it poses two problem. The first one, and the most important IMHO, is that by repacking you loose the ability to verify easily that your orig tarball is the same as upstream's. Also, you would have to do this for every release. The second problem might not be one for everyone, but I personally think that 3.0 (quilt) is better than 1.0 on a lot of aspects — you can probably find comparisons on the Web if you don't trust my word for it :-). So, I repeat, the solution is as simple as this: $ mkdir debian/source $ echo '3.0 (quilt)' > debian/source/format Cheers, Simon
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