On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 11:28:26AM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Debian package steptalk is wrongly shipped as a native debian
>package.
Apparently, recently uploaded steptalk_0.8.2-1 has corrected the
problem.
>The first and second versions of debian package steptalk didn't
>provide a .orig.tar.gz file. Is steptalk in violation of the last
s/Is/Was/
>paragraph of policy 5.6.20 [0]?
>
> If a new Debian revision of a package is being shipped and no new
> original source archive is being distributed the .dsc must still
> contain the Files field entry for the original source archive
> package-upstream-version.orig.tar.gz, but the .changes file should
> leave it out. In this case the original source archive on the
> distribution site must match exactly, byte-for-byte, the original
> source archive which was used to generate the .dsc file and diff
> which are being uploaded.
>
>[0] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Files
>
>Anibal Monsalve Salazar
Anibal Monsalve Salazar
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