Re: "Brian C. White" <bcwhite@verisim.com>
Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
>
> Brian White writes:
> > When I run 'dpkg-buildpackage' to build a package, it archives the
> > source and makes a diff. It then proceeds to erase the original
> > source directory tree and later says that it's a diff-only upload.
>
> I agree with Dale Scheetz. dpkg-buildpackage is operating as
> documented and designed and will not be changed.
>
> There are some technical reasons which make it more necessary to
> remove the original source directory than just to save space: if you
> do not then either you must recreate the .orig.tar.gz (thus producing
> a different .orig.tar.gz and breaking diff-only uploads) or somehow
> guess which to use if you find both .orig.tar.gz and .orig.
>
You don't have to guess, you have just stated that using the
.orig.tar.gz is the only one that makes sense - unless I am missing
something.
Andy.
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