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

[Carlo Segre <segre@iit.edu>]

Yes, you need to keep the *.orig directory until you have built the 
package once.  THis is what it uses to make the diff file.

Carlo


On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Bastian Venthur wrote:

> 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

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