On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 13:37:11 +0100 Andrea Bolognani <eof@kiyuko.org> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 06:57:33 -0500 > Kevin Coyner <kevin@rustybear.com> wrote: > > > Your md5sum check between upstream's file and your .orig.tar.gz file > > do not match. This needs to be addressed. > > This is quite strange. > I'll check as soon as the upstream site goes back online -- there seems to > be some trouble with the hosting provider right now. The site is back online, and I checked the upstream tarball. The md5sum is in fact different, though the included files are exactly the same (I checked their md5sums). Trying to understand the reason for this, I ran the following command: $ file rhinote-0.7.tar.gz rhinote_0.7.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, was "rhinote-0.7.tar", from FAT filesystem (MS-DOS, OS/2, NT), last modified: Fri Mar 24 03:13:21 2006 So apparently the different md5sum is due to the fact the upstream tarball was created from a FAT filesystem, while the one in Debian's archives was created by dpkg-buildpackage on a GNU/Linux system (compression level could also another cause I guess). How should I handle this? Building the package using the upstream tarball works fine, but I don't think it's possible to replace the .orig.tar.gz in the Debian archive with another one. Should I create a get-orig-source target in debian/rules and add a notice in debian/README.Debian explaining the reason for the different md5sum? -- KiyuKo <eof AT kiyuko DOT org> Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.
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