Re: Still no sponsor for PySol

[Roger Ward <roger.ward@natnet.com>]

Quoting Alexander Nofftz <lists@AlexNofftz.de>:

> I'm packaging it, adopting the debianized version of Adam Klein. The
> upstream
> sources can be found at: http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/pysol/
>  
> > How are you generating the .diff.gz files? 
> 
> I generated them manually by using diff directy. I didn't make any changes
> to the upstream sources, so the diff only contains debian/*.
> 

Again, I would reccomend using dpkg-buildpackage, even if you only intend to 
generate the source upload.  If you name the source tarball (upstream source) 
<pkg>_<version>.orig.tar.gz and are in the source tree (with /debian/ setup) it 
should generate the .diff.gz based on the last changelog version number (in 
this case 4.81-1).

(fyi, for one of my packages I'm playing around with:

roger@rome:~/debian/test$ ls;dpkg-source -b freevsd-1.4.9-1;ls

freevsd-1.4.9-1  freevsd_1.4.9-1.orig.tar.gz

dpkg-source: building freevsd using existing freevsd_1.4.9-1.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: building freevsd in freevsd_1.4.9-1-0.1.diff.gz
dpkg-source: warning: file src/vsdproxyd/Makefile has no final newline (either 
original or modified version)
dpkg-source: building freevsd in freevsd_1.4.9-1-0.1.dsc

freevsd-1.4.9-1              freevsd_1.4.9-1-0.1.dsc
freevsd_1.4.9-1-0.1.diff.gz  freevsd_1.4.9-1.orig.tar.gz
)

Thanks,
Roger