Re: Still no sponsor for PySol
On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 10:43:12AM +0930, David Lloyd wrote:
> Roger et al,
> > 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).
>
> Is there any particular reason why one wouldn't use dpkg-buildpackage?
I can't think of a single one, unless you mean using wrappers around
dpkg-buildpackage like debuild (but then you're still using
dpkg-buildpackage, of course). Don't build source archives by hand; it's
error-prone and a waste of your time.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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