Re: howto get rid of native-package-with-dash-version?

[Bastian Venthur <expires-2006@venthur.de>]

Bas Wijnen wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 11:32:01PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote:
>> 
>> Ok but one question remains: When I unpacked the original sources, I had
>> to rename the resulting dir to calm dh_make down -- when I now unpack the
>> .zip in order to make an .orig.tar.gz out of it, do I have to rename the
>> dir too or has the .orig.tar.bz an exact copy of the .zip?
> 
> Usually, it is a good idea to keep the original tarball as it is, so the
> directory it unpacks to should not be changed.  dpkg-buildpackage will
> handle
> it if it doesn't unpack to the "correct" name.  The reason for keeping the
> original is as far as I understood it that the md5 checksum is the same as
> the distributed version.
> 
> However, since your distribution is a zip file, and not a tar.gz, that
> doesn't
> work anyway.  So you can make it the renamed directory I guess.  But
> there's
> not really any reason to do so, as dpkg-buildpackage doesn't need it.  So
> I would just unzip, then tar -czf, and name it .orig.tar.gz.

Hmm now I am a bit surprised:

I've observed, that after running dh_make in dir "foo-1.0", it creates a dir
named "foo-1.0.orig" right besides "foo-1.0". And after debuild, I have 
"foo_1.0.orig.tar.gz" too -- so I guess dbuild cares about everything and
there is no need to create an *.orig.tar.gz by yourself.

And so I guess my original question was only foundet in the fact, that I
removed the foo-1.0.orig dir a bit too fast (I thought I would not need it,
since I keep my orignal .zip).

Can anybody confirm my thoughts on this?  


Kind regards

Bastian