Hi, probably just a corner case, but for packages that happen to have no useful .tar.gz.orig (either because it is distributed as .zip.foo.rar.uuenc.gpg or because a lot of stuff has to be removed for legal reasons), it should be ok for the maintainer to just make one .tar.gz file, and not to "invent" a diff. As a compromise, a debian/not_native file to stop lintian/linda from complaining is ok I guess. (And maybe a debian/really_native for a debian-native package whose maintainer - for some wired reason - prefers to have a .diff.gz/tar.gz.orig source package) nomeata Am Mo, den 12.04.2004 schrieb Shaun Jackman um 22:28: > I won't say anything useful here, but simply add a "Me too!". I would > say the following two statements always hold: > > version contains '-' implies not Debian native (i.e. orig/diff) > not (version contains '-') implies Debian native (i.e. tar.gz) > > If either of these fails, I think lintian/linda should definitely > complain. Can anyone think of a counterexample? > > Cheers, > Shaun > > > On Mon April 12, 2004 12h32, Henning Makholm wrote: > > Scripsit Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <fenio@o2.pl> > > > > > So why don't we provide some additional header or file in debian > > > subdirectory to mark native packages? > > > > Something like making dpkg-source -b refuse to build a native > > source package if the version number contains a dash (unless some > > force option is given)? > > > > There are 423 .tar.gz files in the current unstable Sources file > > that wouldn't have been built then. Many of them look like they are > > not really Debian native, and not really numbered -1 upstream > > either. > > > > > but maybe someone else could be so kindly and code it. > > > > The first step would be to muster a consensus that it is indeed > > always wrong to have no .diff.gz for a package with an upstream > > author outside Debian. I'm not quite sure such a consensus exists > > today. -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: joachimbreitner@amessage.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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