different sizes for same upstream tarball

2001-01-07 Thread Jason Henry Parker
Hi, The byacc upstream tarball on ftp.debian.org 52916 bytes long, but on my development system, it compresses to 52930 bytes. (There hasn't been an upload of this package in about a year, shame on me.) I need to do an upload to fix several bugs, there have been no upstream changes (I think it's

Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball

2001-01-07 Thread Bradley Bell
Just use the old one from ftp.debian.org. If the .orig.tar.gz already exists in .. (relative to the source dir), a new one won't be generated. -brad On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 05:15:46PM +1000, Jason Henry Parker wrote: > Hi, > > The byacc upstream tarball on ftp.debian.org 52916 bytes long, but o

Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball

2001-01-07 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20010107T171546+1000, Jason Henry Parker wrote: > Should I file a bug against ftp.debian.org It would be closed as a non-bug. > or alter the filesize and > md5sum in the .changes and .dsc, resign and upload that? Don't do that. It would probably make your upload broken. What I suggest is th

Re: INSTALL.gz with generic installation instructions

2001-01-07 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 15:32:17 +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 20010106T13+0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> Is it allowed or desired to exclude documentation from binary packages >> that are in the source? > >Of course, if done with taste. The INSTALL file almost never shou

Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball

2001-01-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On 7 Jan 2001, Jason Henry Parker wrote: > Hi, Hi Jason, > The byacc upstream tarball on ftp.debian.org 52916 bytes long, but on > my development system, it compresses to 52930 bytes. (There hasn't > been an upload of this package in about a year, shame on me.) I need > to do an upload to fix

lintian info message

2001-01-07 Thread Michael Wiedmann
In creating an unofficial Debian Package on a Potato system I get the following lintian info message, which I don't know how to get rid of: $ lintian -iIv PACKAGE.dsc ... I: PACKAGE source: unknown-field-in-dsc format ... Checking the deb-file alone produces no info message so I supsect the follo

Looking for a sponsor for an upload of debian-mirror

2001-01-07 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Hi, Could someone please upload debian-mirror 1.0-1 deb ftp://rut.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/ unstable main deb-src ftp://rut.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/ unstable main ftp://rut.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/dists/unstable/main/[source/binary-i386]/ Thanks. MfG Goswin

changes and arch?

2001-01-07 Thread Chad Miller
Hi, all. I have a question about the subject of the following message. I built a freeradius binary .deb and ...powerpc.changes on a powerpc. Is the changes file really architecture-specific? I didn't think so, but the name is wierd. - chad -- Ch

Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball

2001-01-07 Thread Jason Henry Parker
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > apt-get source byacc > and you have the old .tar.gz. (Or is there a good reason for a newly > compressed tarball?) The reason I wanted to try a recompressed tarball was that I use cvs-buildpackage to make builds easier; if I have to futz about copying th

Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball

2001-01-07 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Jason Henry Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> apt-get source byacc and you have the old .tar.gz. (Or is there >> a good reason for a newly compressed tarball?) > The reason I wanted to try a recompressed tarball was that

Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball

2001-01-07 Thread tony mancill
On 7 Jan 2001, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > The orig.tar.gz file should be pristine (does someone have the pointer > to the policiy about this?). Basically NEVER rebuild it. > > It should be the original file downloaded from the upstream author > without any changes so that the md5sum compares to an

Re: lintian info message

2001-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
Michael Wiedmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In creating an unofficial Debian Package on a Potato system I get the >following lintian info message, which I don't know how to get rid of: > >$ lintian -iIv PACKAGE.dsc >... >I: PACKAGE source: unknown-field-in-dsc format >... > >Checking the deb-file

Re: changes and arch?

2001-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, all. I have a question about the subject of the following message. >I built a freeradius binary .deb and ...powerpc.changes on a powerpc. Is >the changes file really architecture-specific? I didn't think so, but the >name is wierd. The .changes file

Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball

2001-01-07 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == tony mancill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 7 Jan 2001, Goswin Brederlow wrote: >> The orig.tar.gz file should be pristine (does someone have the >> pointer to the policiy about this?). Basically NEVER rebuild >> it. >> >> It should be the original file dow

Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball

2001-01-07 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20010107T171546+1000, Jason Henry Parker wrote: > Should I file a bug against ftp.debian.org It would be closed as a non-bug. > or alter the filesize and > md5sum in the .changes and .dsc, resign and upload that? Don't do that. It would probably make your upload broken. What I suggest is t

Re: INSTALL.gz with generic installation instructions

2001-01-07 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 15:32:17 +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 20010106T13+0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> Is it allowed or desired to exclude documentation from binary packages >> that are in the source? > >Of course, if done with taste. The INSTALL file almost never sho

Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball

2001-01-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On 7 Jan 2001, Jason Henry Parker wrote: > Hi, Hi Jason, > The byacc upstream tarball on ftp.debian.org 52916 bytes long, but on > my development system, it compresses to 52930 bytes. (There hasn't > been an upload of this package in about a year, shame on me.) I need > to do an upload to fix

lintian info message

2001-01-07 Thread Michael Wiedmann
In creating an unofficial Debian Package on a Potato system I get the following lintian info message, which I don't know how to get rid of: $ lintian -iIv PACKAGE.dsc ... I: PACKAGE source: unknown-field-in-dsc format ... Checking the deb-file alone produces no info message so I supsect the foll

Looking for a sponsor for an upload of debian-mirror

2001-01-07 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Hi, Could someone please upload debian-mirror 1.0-1 deb ftp://rut.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/ unstable main deb-src ftp://rut.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/ unstable main ftp://rut.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/dists/unstable/main/[source/binary-i386]/ Thanks. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUB

changes and arch?

2001-01-07 Thread Chad Miller
Hi, all. I have a question about the subject of the following message. I built a freeradius binary .deb and ...powerpc.changes on a powerpc. Is the changes file really architecture-specific? I didn't think so, but the name is wierd. - chad -- C

Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball

2001-01-07 Thread Jason Henry Parker
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > apt-get source byacc > and you have the old .tar.gz. (Or is there a good reason for a newly > compressed tarball?) The reason I wanted to try a recompressed tarball was that I use cvs-buildpackage to make builds easier; if I have to futz about copying t

Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball

2001-01-07 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Jason Henry Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> apt-get source byacc and you have the old .tar.gz. (Or is there >> a good reason for a newly compressed tarball?) > The reason I wanted to try a recompressed tarball was tha

Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball

2001-01-07 Thread tony mancill
On 7 Jan 2001, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > The orig.tar.gz file should be pristine (does someone have the pointer > to the policiy about this?). Basically NEVER rebuild it. > > It should be the original file downloaded from the upstream author > without any changes so that the md5sum compares to a

Re: lintian info message

2001-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
Michael Wiedmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In creating an unofficial Debian Package on a Potato system I get the >following lintian info message, which I don't know how to get rid of: > >$ lintian -iIv PACKAGE.dsc >... >I: PACKAGE source: unknown-field-in-dsc format >... > >Checking the deb-file

Re: changes and arch?

2001-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, all. I have a question about the subject of the following message. >I built a freeradius binary .deb and ...powerpc.changes on a powerpc. Is >the changes file really architecture-specific? I didn't think so, but the >name is wierd. The .changes fil

Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball

2001-01-07 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == tony mancill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 7 Jan 2001, Goswin Brederlow wrote: >> The orig.tar.gz file should be pristine (does someone have the >> pointer to the policiy about this?). Basically NEVER rebuild >> it. >> >> It should be the original file do