Re: Original sources, or not

2003-10-24 Thread Chris Waters
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 01:21:16PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote: > Perhaps tarballs that arent the original source should remove the .orig > and just use .tar.gz, or use some other extension such as > debian.tar.gz A simpler approach (and one I've used) is to generate a new "upstream" version numbe

Re: Bug#216492: FTBFS (unstable/all) missing build-dep

2003-10-24 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 12:58:19AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > So I come up with a different proposal: > Introducing a new file, say debian/rules.version. > If this file does not exist, we declare that version=0, > else version=`cat debian/rules.version`. Yes, yes, yes! What an elegant solutio