Re: dpkg-source: unrepresentable changes to source

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

for.ad@free.fr writes:

> hello,
>
> I'm trying to build a source and a binary package and I would like to add some
> files like pixmaps in the archives.
> My Pixmap file is in the debian/pix/ folder and while 'dpkg-source' build the
> diff.gz I got a 'unrepresentable changes to source'
>
>
> ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Desktop/exemple/exemple-1.0$ dpkg-buildpackage
> dpkg-buildpackage: set CFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
> dpkg-buildpackage: set CPPFLAGS to default value:
> dpkg-buildpackage: set LDFLAGS to default value: -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
> dpkg-buildpackage: set FFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
> dpkg-buildpackage: set CXXFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
> dpkg-buildpackage: source package exemple
> dpkg-buildpackage: source version 1.0-1
> dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by john <mail@domain.ltd>
> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386
>  fakeroot debian/rules clean
> /usr/bin/make clean
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ubuntu/Desktop/exemple/exemple-1.0'
> rm -rf *.o
> rm -rf prog
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ubuntu/Desktop/exemple/exemple-1.0'
>  dpkg-source -b exemple-1.0
> dpkg-source: info: using source format `1.0'
> dpkg-source: info: building exemple using existing exemple_1.0.orig.tar.gz
> dpkg-source: info: building exemple in exemple_1.0-1.diff.gz
> dpkg-source: error: cannot represent change to
> exemple-1.0/debian/pix/applications-graphics.png: binary file contents changed
> dpkg-source: unrepresentable changes to source
> dpkg-buildpackage: failure: dpkg-source -b exemple-1.0 gave error exit status 1
> ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Desktop/exemple/exemple-1.0$

Currently the best way is to get this upstream ASAP.
Short of that you need to do some ugly tricks like uuencode the image
and decode it during build.

Luckily the version 3.0 source format fixes this. Unluckily you are
still not allowed to upload version 3.0 source format to
Debian. *sigh*

MfG
        Goswin