At Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:14:23 -0500, Alexandre Quessy wrote: > > Hello Christoph and Debian mentors, > > How do I make sure my packages are considered as non-native ? Should I > remove the "Source" entry in the debian/control file, or set it to a > different value? For your package to become non-nate you'll need to set the version in debian/changelog to $upstreamversion-1 and have $packagename_$upstreamversion.orig.tar.gz in the parrent directory (well there are some exceptiions but ...). > Right now, I set it to the same name as the package. It > might be wrong. I started from a template for Python projects a friend > gave me which contains only 3 files : > * debian/control > * debian/rules > * debian/changelog > I think I should start by packaging properly only one project, and do > the other ones once I am sure everything is OK. > Since "toonloop" depends on "python-pygame" 1.9 (which I might end up > maintaining too), I should start with something else, like > python-portmidi, python-purity or lunch. I will get back to you with my > choice shortly. > > Other question : How do I make sure there are no .hg files in the diff? > I should "export" the sources from the revision control system first ? Passing -I to dpkg-buildpackage should be just fine to exclude the version-controll support files. > Thank you. > Regards, > > Alexandre Quessy Regards Christoph
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