lintian warning native-package-with-dash-version

[kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>]

Hi
  I am new to packaging and I am trying to package gnuplotfortran whose 
upstream is located at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplotfortran . 
The upstream source is called gnuplotfortran-0.2.2-1.tar.bz2 . I 
downloaded this to /tmp .

Then I did

tar xjvf /tmp/gnuplotfortran-0.2.2-1.tar.bz2 -C .
tar czvf gnuplotfortran-0.2.2-1.tar.gz gnuplotfortran-0.2.2-1/
cd gnuplotfortran-0.2.2-1/
dh_make --copyright lgpl -e kamaraju@gmail.com -f \
../gnuplotfortran-0.2.2-1.tar.gz -l

Then I proceeded on doing dpkg-buildpackage etc., At the end I obtained 
gnuplotfortran_0.2.2-1-1.dsc . But if I do


$lintian -i gnuplotfortran_0.2.2-1-1.dsc
W: gnuplotfortran source: native-package-with-dash-version
N:
N:   Native packaging should only be used if a piece of software was
N:   written specifically to be turned into a Debian package. In this case,
N:   the version number should not contain a debian revision part.
N:
N:   Native source packages are sometimes created by accident. In most
N:   cases the reason is the location of the original source tarball.
N:   dpkg-source searches for this in
N:   ../package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
N:

Q1) Where am I doing wrong? How can I get rid of this error?

Q2) should I create a symbolic link gnuplotfortran-0.2.2-1.orig.tar.gz 
which points to gnuplotfortran-0.2.2-1.tar.gz before proceeding with 
dpkg-buildpackage? I see that it is automatically created after 
dpkg-buildpackage step.

thanks
raju



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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Graduate Student, MAE
Cornell University
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