Thanks you for the explanation, Luca. The author, John, has converted the .pdf's to .png images (we may consider moving to SVG in the future) and switched the packaging to non-native quilt format. I have just uploaded hamexam_1.0.1-1 to the new queue. -Kamal On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 20:03 +0200, Luca Falavigna wrote: > Il 07/06/2011 01:18, Kamal Mostafa ha scritto: > > Ooops, I foolishly did not consider that the PDF's would be unsuitable > > (their content is only a few images). I will ask the package author to > > extract the images from the PDF's and ship them as .png's instead > > (good?). > > SVG files would be even better. > > > > I suggested that the package author (John Nogatch) build it as a native > > package, since he created the software originally for Debian along with > > its debian/ packaging. (There is no "orig tarball" or other repository, > > and it hasn't been published anywhere else yet). > > > > I'm a newbie DD, so please advise -- is it not acceptable/proper to make > > the package native in that case? (and if not, what does make a package > > suitable for being a native package?). > > Native packages are usually limited to a subset of software designed for > Debian and derivatives only. This doesn't seem the case here. > Sometimes leaving debian/ directory in trunk/tarball is easier for > upstream developers, but not for Debian maintainers. You could consider > switching to format 3.0 (quilt) to solve this issue: > http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0 >
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