Re: Different upstream tar.gz

[Jonathan Wiltshire <debian@jwiltshire.org.uk>]

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 10:13:25PM +0200, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote:
> I'm looking at fixing #517904[1], that the language packages for
> tesseract are blobs without source. To do this, I will have to give a
> new upstream tar.gz, containing the source, and not the blob. How do I
> do this? Should I make up a new upstream version number? Is there a
> standard solution for this?

The accepted practice is to append a dfsg-suffix to the version number,
for example: agg_2.5+dfsg1.orig.tar.gz


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