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Re: updates to upstream packages



tmancill@debian.org (tony mancill) writes:

> I have been working with the authors of wanpipe and have some assorted
> goodies that I'd like to include into my Debian package.  dpkg-buildsource
> does like it when I just add the files to my source tree, I guess since
> there is nothing to diff them against.

Hmm, with dpkg-buildpackage additional files in my packages go into
the diff.gz, the upstream source is not touched (.orig.tar.gz).

> Should I upload a new .orig.tar.gz file?  And if I do so, shouldn't I
> update the upstream version number?  (Which is bordering on raw fiction,
> since no such upstream version exists.)

Sorry, I don´t know.

(Nice article in Linux journal!)

HTH,

Jens

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