Re: RFS: kabikaboo --lintian-clean? no.

[Dave Kerr <aidave@shaw.ca>]

Thank you for the response.

My relevant directory looks something like this:

		               kabikaboo_1.1-3_i386.changes
kabikaboo_1.1/                 kabikaboo_1.1-3_i386.deb
kabikaboo_1.1-3_amd64.changes  kabikaboo_1.1-3_i386.deb.asc
kabikaboo_1.1-3_amd64.deb      kabikaboo_1.1-3_i386.upload
kabikaboo_1.1-3_amd64.deb.asc  kabikaboo_1.1-3.tar.gz
kabikaboo_1.1-3_amd64.upload
kabikaboo_1.1-3.dsc

I tried changing from "kabikaboo-1.1" to "kabikaboo_1.1".  Maybe this
was unnecessary, I still got the warning.

I tried changing the version "1.1-3" to "1.1_3" in "changelog", but it
said: dont use underscores!

I dont have any *.orig.tar.gz files, I dont recall ever having one.

I'm at a bit of a loss.  I will try again tomorrow when I have am able
to drink coffee again.

cheers
Dave Kerr


Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <[🔎] 4A394FAD.1060106@shaw.ca>, Dave Kerr wrote:
> > Well the system e-mailed me back and said :
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Your package does not seem to be lintian clean.
> > 'lintian' is a tool to verify if source package contain obvious
> > packaging errors. These warnings/errors were found:
> > W: kabikaboo source: native-package-with-dash-version
> > N:
> > N:    Native packaging should only be used if a piece of software was
> > written
> > N:    specifically to be turned into a Debian package. In this case, the
> > N:    version number should not contain a Debian revision part.
> > N:
> > N:    Native source packages are sometimes created by accident. In most
> > cases
> > N:    the reason is the location of the original source tarball.
> > dpkg-source 
> > N:    searches for this in
> > ../package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz. 
>
> You should be using non-native packaging for your package.
>
> Fixing this is probably just an issue of renaming your .orig.tar.gz.  If 
> your package is version 1.0-1 you should be using "package_1.0.orig.tar.gz" 
> not "package_1.0-1.orig.tar.gz".  In general the .orig.tar.gz name will not 
> include the debian revision part of the non-native package version.
>
> > I swear I was tricked by the "lintian" tool.
>
> Lintian is undergoing constant improvement.  You should make sure and use 
> the lintian version from Sid.  You can use apt-pinning to get lintian from 
> Sid while continuing to get other packages from stable/testing/whatever.  If 
> you are using pbuilder to build your package inside a Sid chroot (packages 
> for uploading to unstable should always be built in a Sid environment), you 
> can use a post-build hook to run Sid's lintian against the package.