This one time, at band camp, Ben Crowell said: > Matthew Palmer wrote: > >[...] Specifically, you'll need to > >provide your sponsor with a standard Debian source package (containing > >orig.tar.gz, diff.gz, and dsc files). > > Ah, thanks for the info, I'm a newbie at this! After going through > the steps given in the Debian New Maintainers' Guide, > http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-build.en.html, > the debianish files I end up with in my directory are these: > > when_1.0.15-1_all.deb: Debian binary package (format 2.0), uses gzip compression > when_1.0.15-1.diff.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, max compression > when_1.0.15-1.dsc: PGP armored data signed message > when_1.0.15-1_i386.changes: PGP armored data signed message > when_1.0.15.orig.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix > when-1.0.15.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix > > If the .deb is a binary package, do I need to do something else to create > a source package? Do source packages have a different extension? (Of course > the distinction between source and binary is kind of moot here, since my > program is in pure perl, but I assume they're two different formats?) > It seems like I'd need to do a dpkg-source, but from the man page, I'm > not clear exactly what to do. The guide says in section 6.1 that the > command `dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot' should make both a source and > a binary package, but it doesn't seem to have done so...? Your 'source package' is the combination of the three files when_1.0.15.orig.tar.gz, when_1.0.15-1.diff.gz and when_1.0.15-1.dsc. There is no container package, so the name is perhaps a bit misleading. Basically, the dsc contains some information that verifies the orig.tar.gz and the diff.gz, and the diff.gz is the patch against upstream to make it build with debian's infrastructure. > Thanks in advance for any further help you can give! HTH, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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