On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 02:36:20PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-23 11:33]: > > VisualOS seems to be a native package. The previous maintainer was > > also the upstream developer (it's a SourceForge project). > > > > So should I convert this to a normal style package instead? Is it as > > straightforward as renaming the tarball? > > It's a native package which uses non-native version numbers... I think > it should be non-native. Ideally, obtain the upstream .tar ball, make > a diff to the current package and use that as the Debian diff. And > when you build -3, include the new .orig.tar, but it will need another > name as the one currently in the archive. (Ugh, messy.)
A native tarball doesn't have '.orig.' in the name (plus it _does_ have the debian-revision part of the version), so no name clashes, even if you keep the upstream-part of the version number the same. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
