Re: "Cannot represent change" error upon PNG file addition

[Nick Lewycky <nicholas@mxc.ca>]

Frank Küster wrote:
> "Carlo U. Segre" <segre@iit.edu> schrieb:
>
> > You can add the icon in XPM format.  This is plain text.  If you want
> > to use the PNGs, you will need to send them to upstream and ask them
> > to include the icons in the source.  I haven't found any other way to
> > avoid the problem you cite.
>
> You can include it in the diff.gz after uuencode'ing, and uudecode it in
> debian/rules. 

Then Build-Dep against sharutils?

This is a crock. The solutions presented is right, but it's lousy by 
design. The real problem is that diff, although good for representing 
changes from upstream source versus Debian source, can't--and apparently 
doesn't--represent the changes from upstream package to Debian package.

Is there any plan amongst dpkg type folk to visit and solve this 
problem? Or even a bug number?

Surely I can't be the first to complain about this.

Nick Lewycky