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Re: icon.png => debian/ ?



On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 11:18:35PM +0100, Mariusz Przygodzki wrote:

> Upstream sources have no icon for some application.
> How I can add an icon to debian/ in other format than xpm ?
> When I try to do it with icon.png I receive message:
> 
> dpkg-source: cannot represent change to debian/icon.png: binary file contents 
> changed
> 
> The above message is very logical but I am still trying to find some 
> workaround and I don't want to change *.orig.tar.gz.
> 
> Any suggestion?

Try encoding the binary file with uuencode, shar or a similar tool, and
decoding it in debian/rules.  Don't forget to Build-Depend on sharutils (or
whatever) if you do this.

-- 
 - mdz



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