Re: RFS: b5

[Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 07:18:31PM +0200, Panu Kalliokoski wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:52:04AM +1100, skaller wrote:
> > > It's your call, but since making them non-native is not really that much
> > > more work, I'd recommend doing it that way.
> > However there is a reason, it is political, it is
> > relevant -- it convinced me anyhow :) I also initially
> > produced a native package.
> 
> Thank you for this explanation.  Although I still have some issues with
> it, it seems I should build infrastructure for building source packages.
> (Earlier, one just needed dpkg-source -b; now it seems there must be
> some script or makefile target to construct a fake .orig directory and
> then build the source with that.)  It feels funny that I have to make a
> dummy "pristine" source for the Debian project while I've been releasing
> the "debian-specific" source outside Debian for ages.
The .orig *directory* is a temporary artifact created, used, and
removed by dh_make for initial packaging only; you don't need it.  All
you need to have a nonnative package is to have a
../$package_$version.orig.tar.gz.  The problem is that it is often
misnamed.

Justin