Re: Recent changes in dpkg

[Carsten Hey <carsten@debian.org>]

* Carsten Hey <carsten@debian.org> [2010-05-27 15:44 +0200]:
> * Mike Hommey [2010-05-27 12:00 +0200]:
> > There is one possible benefit: impossibility to create a native package
> > when the .orig.tar.gz is missing, which happens much too often.
>
> Doesn't look like it's impossible:
>
> | dpkg-source: info: source format `3.0 (quilt)' discarded: no orig.tar file found
> | dpkg-source: info: using source format `1.0'

You're right if a newer dpkg is used:

| dpkg-source: error: can't build with source format '3.0 (quilt)': no orig.tar file found


Carsten