Re: Documentation of original source tarballs
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 01:31:39PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 08:45:01PM +0000, Henning Makholm wrote:
> > I have tried to consense my corrected understanding of the technical
> > requirements and current best practices into the following text, which
> > I intend to contribute to some appropriate collection of
> > documentation. For now, I solicit comments, especially on the
> > following points:
>
> If we're going to be explicit about defining the handling of
> orig.tar.gz, and when native and non-native source packging should be
> used, we should also note that sometimes it is necessary to use a
> debian-native packaging, due to a defficiencies in dpkg-source, diff,
> and patch not being able to handle modified or new binary files.
That only requires a non-pristine .orig.tar.gz, not full Debian-native
packaging (i.e. .tar.gz, no .diff.gz).
Also, new binary files are often handled by including uuencoded files in
the diff.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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