On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 03:20:06PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > Well, it's either that or change the build tools... either by adding a flag > > to the control file, or by changing dpkg-buildpackage to refuse to build a > > native package (abort and complain that no .orig.tar.gz was found) unless it > > is explicitily told to do so. > I still completely fail to see why this is exactly needed. The only > reason I can see is detecting bogus uploads where they change from > Debian native (ie without .diff.gz) to non-native or the other way around. > And guess what: katie already detects that.
It doesn't really; it only keeps better track of whether the .diff.gz and .orig.tar.gz are still needed than dinstall used to. It doesn't issue rejections or warnings to the maintainer or anything. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you do not understand, cannot perceive, or don't care about, is too much.'' -- John S. Novak, III (The Humblest Man on the Net)
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