Re: how use dpatch for binary files ?

[Fathi BOUDRA <fboudra@uxp.fr>]

Le Mardi 19 Juillet 2005 05:49, Brian Nelson a écrit :
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 07:51:18PM -0300, Jose Carlos do Nascimento wrote:
> > Im making one package using dpatch.
> > I changed some binary files (images)  and created one patch in
> > debian/patches
> >
> > When I rum dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc
> > I receive message below.
> >
> > 10_testpatch.dpatch  is a patch for one image.
> >
> > Im thinking use uuencode and uudecode to solve this problem,  but I
> > would like to know if have other option to solve it.
>
> You could make use of the new format supported by dpkg-source.  See:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/06/msg00010.html
>
> I'm not sure if it's OK to upload packages using the new format yet
> though.
>
> --
> Society is never going to make any progress until we all learn to
> pretend to like each other.

from my previous mail about the new format :
> is there any documentation or howto about Wig & Pen source format (dpkg 
source 
> format 2.0) ? Maybe an update to the NMG could be helpfull ?

Certainly not in the NMG as long as you aren't allowed to use it in the
official archive...