Re: ddebs

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

On 25/03/11 22:24, Torsten Werner wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
> <pochu@debian.org> wrote:
>> http://people.debian.org/~pochu/debhelper_8.1.2+nmu1_all.deb
> 
> Thanks. The name of the ddeb for gzip is gzip-ddeb. Can we rely on
> that schema or is there another way to find the name of a deb package
> from its ddeb package? Rationale: whenever a ddeb gets uploaded we
> need to check if there is already a matching deb in the archive (or at
> least in the same upload). If not we will reject the upload.

The way I did it was one .ddeb per source package, not per binary. So it is
$src-ddeb. You can reject them if they are not for $src package (or if $src
package doesn't exist in the archive).

Cheers,
Emilio