Re: Package rejected due to missing source entry, (help)
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On 21 Mar 1998, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
>> In practice: We (Debian) have always to distribute a source package
>> as a .tar.gz (plus .dsc and often .diff.gz) that generates the .deb
>> files, so the source package and the binary package may never be the
>> same, even if the set of files they contain are almost identical.
>
>Ok, thanks.
If it makes you feel better, I misunderstood this on my first binary
package, too. I'm currently working on writing up an addition to the
packaging manual et al to submit to the maintainers that might clear it
up (assuming they don't beat me to it).
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