Re: including full source code in upload
On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 09:49, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Gergely Nagy <algernon@debian.org> writes:
>
> > You have to rename the original tarball to
> > gphoto2_2.0beta3.orig.tar.gz. Note: rename, not repack.
>
> I would not recommend that you do that for the following
> reason : when the final release of gphoto will ge released,
> it will be versioned 2.0.
> However, dpkg considers that 2.0beta3 >> 2.0 so you will have
> to use an epoch to bypass this, i.e. versioning it like
> 1:2.0.
>
> So, i'd advide that you use :
> gphoto2_1.99-beta3.orig.tar.gz
>
> and you won't get the epoch problem.
Good point, the problem being that 2.0beta2 is already in the archive...
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
Reply to: