Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Jan Kesten <debian-lists@the-hidden-realm.de> writes:

> Hi Justin,
...
> Some thing I didn't mentioned before:
>
> dpkg-source: warning: source directory `./debian-user-german-200202' is
> not <sourcepackage>-<upstreamversion> `debian-user-german-200202-1'
>
> Is it better to use underscores like debian_user_german-200202?
>
> Cheers,
> Jan

You don't have a debian-user-german-200202.orig.tar.gz so the package
is detected as native package. That means that the full version
(200202-1) is taken as upstream version and the directory is expected
to be names such.

What you have done here is not strictly against policy but frowned
upon. You mixed a native package with a debian version.

I would suggest one of two things:

1) Use 200202.1 as upstream version keeping it a native package.

2) Create an orig.tar.gz with just the mbox and a diff.gz with the
debian dir and keep 200202-1.


The mbox files probably never change unless you start cencorship but
the debian script might change. Having the two seperate allows for
smaller uploads.

MfG
        Goswin