Re: upstream tarball repackaging from bz2 to gz
On Sunday 03 September 2006 17:10, Eric Cooper wrote:
> The upstream tarball for a package I maintain is in .tar.bz2 format.
> I've been downloading it and recompressing it into .tar.gz format.
> This seems like a very common situation.
>
> 1. Should I still follow the section on "best practices for
> .orig.tar.gz files" in the Developer's Reference, and include a
> README.Debian-source file and a get-orig-source target in
> debian/rules?
You might want to look at debian/rules:get-orig-source in the sofia-sip source
package and grab & adjust that target for you as well. In short: match the
your md5 hashsum (or sha1) of the bz2 tarball you have already audited
(inspected, checked or whatever) against the tarball found on the upstream
location; then repackage it as debian-style orig.tar.gz. I think this is
self-documented, and hardly warrants extra file like README.Debian-source.
> 2. Should I automate the bunzip2 & gzip in the debian/watch file?
Well, just watch the bz2 tarball here.
> (I don't think I can justify asking upstream to publish a more
> wasteful version of the same bits on his website just to suit Debian.)
True.
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