Re: howto get rid of native-package-with-dash-version?
I believe that this happens when dpkg-buildpackage cannot find an
appropriately names original tarball. It then assumes that the package is
a native Debian package which should not have a revision number by policy.
This is usually dealt with by specifing the source tarball when running
dh_make. In this case, you don't have a *.tar.gz source but a *.zip so
you will probably just have to take the contents of the original
tvbrowser_v1.1Alpha2_cvs.zip file and make a
tvbrowser_v1.1Alpha2_cvs.tar.gz out of it or better yet simply name it
tvbrowser_1.1+cvs20050622.orig.tar.gz. If you choose the former, then
make a symbolic link
tvbrowser_1.1+cvs20050622.orig.tar.gz --> tvbrowser_v1.1Alpha2_cvs.tar.gz
When dpkg-buildpackage runs, it will find the *.orig.tar.gz file and not
make it a native package.
There might be better ways but this is what I do.
If it were me, I would also make a script which converts a new *.zip
version to the appropriate *.orig.tar.gz to simplify the process when a
new upstream source comes out.
Cheers,
Carlo
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Bastian Venthur wrote:
Hi Mentors,
I'm packing my first debian-package from scratch and have nearly eliminated
all lintian- and linda- warnings/errors. All but one and I have absolutely
no idea how to fix it.
When building the package lintian says: native-package-with-dash-version
I've googled around but I'm still not sure what actually the problem is.
Maybe someone can guess the problem, when I try to bring all relavant
informations.
(1) I've downloaded a sourcefile named "tvbrowser_v1.1Alpha2_cvs.zip"
(2) After unzipping it, I had a directory named "tvbrowser_v1.1Alpha2" which
is of course not acceptable for dh_make.
(3) So i renamed the dir to "tvbrowser-1.1+cvs20050622"
When i debuild the package, the following files are created:
tvbrowser_1.1+cvs20050622-1_i386.deb
tvbrowser_1.1+cvs20050622-1.tar.gz
tvbrowser_1.1+cvs20050622-1.dsc
tvbrowser_1.1+cvs20050622-1_i386.build
tvbrowser_1.1+cvs20050622-1_i386.changes
Can somebody give me a hint which step was wrong or where to fix this
lintian-warning?
Thanks in advance and kind regards
Bastian
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