Re: NMU: Incompatibility between dpkg-dev and developers-reference
Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> >>>>> "MS" == Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE> writes:
>
> MS> Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> I suppose that some script in dpkg-dev works incompatibly with the
> >> instructions in developers-reference.
> >>
> >> Any help/patch/comments?
>
> MS> Help: Simply upload the orig.tar.gz manually.
>
> Thanks, this is what I was going to do. But I am wondering: can this
> work? Will the installation program in master take care of a file that
> is not mentioned in .changes?
Yes, since it's mentioned in the .dsc file and not localized somewhere
in the archive. You have to use the same trick if you change the sub
distribution (main,non-free,non-us,contrib) with an upload.
Regards,
Joey
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