Another way (not sure how dodgy people think this is) is to nuke the debian specific files and dir from upstream tarball, calling this orig and then building up your own debian stuff. On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 04:46:29PM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote: > On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 04:38:14PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > > what seemed only odd some time ago is now the problem: before he starts > > distributing new tarballs he wants i update debian stuff in order to make it > > already for building debian packages. but up on building debian packages i > > have not an upstream tarball against with dpkg-buildpackage makes the > > .diff.gz! > > > > when i first packaged it upstream CVS hadn't debian/ so i had no problem but > > now he wants to release a new upstream version and debian/ is in upstream > > CVS. > > > > of course it is not a debian native package so it should have a separate > > upstream tarball. > > I also ran into this problem a while ago. It was agreed the best way is to > provide an empty diff.gz against the upstream sources. All you have to do > is rename the upstream tarball to ...-1.orig.tar.gz, untar, and > dpkg-buildpackage on it. > > Regards, > > Daniel. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Jason Thomas Phone: +61 2 6257 7111 System Administrator - UID 0 Fax: +61 2 6257 7311 tSA Consulting Group Pty. Ltd. Mobile: 0418 29 66 81 1 Hall Street Lyneham ACT 2602 http://www.topic.com.au/
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