Re: Lintian thinks a Non-Debian Native package is Debian Native
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Nick Leverton <nick@leverton.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 08:22:37AM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
>> Hey Mentors,
>>
>>
>> My maintainer ( on Fluxbox ) is on vacation. I'm an Uploader.
>>
>> My package is whining that it's debian native, when Fluxbox is
>> maintained outside of Debian.
>>
>> This cropped up after there were dfsg changes, but this is not why (
>> Lintian whines that we have a dfsg on a native package, as it should )
>
> In my own experience, the commonest way of accidentally building a Debian
> native package (a source format, nothing to do with where it's maintained)
> is to have a wrongly named upstream tarball, which dpkg-source will not
> associate with your package.
>
> For a package of fluxbox 1.1.1+dfsg1-1 your Debian revision is -1,
> and the tarball should thus be fluxbox_1.1.1+dfsg1.orig.tar.gz.
> Everything before the dash is counted as the upstream version number,
> even when it's a result of DFSG re-packaging.
This makes a lot of sense. Thanks Nick, Nigel!
>
> Nick
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-Paul
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