Re: RFS: trimage

[Kilian Valkhof <kilian@kilianvalkhof.com>]

Nick Leverton wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 01:15:05PM +0200, Kilian Valkhof wrote:
>   
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I uploaded a new version of trimage, with version number 1.0.2-1 and
>> using python-support instead of python-central as suggested. However, I
>> now get a lintian error on "native-package-with-dash-version". I'm at
>> loss what to do and my Google-fu is failing me.
>>     
>
> Have you checked that your upstream tarball is named correctly ?
> It should be trimage_1.0.2.orig.tar.gz.  If it's not found, dpkg-source
> will assume there is no upstream and that you are building a Debian
> native package.
>   
Thanks, I now have that, lintian gives me an "empty-debian-diff" error.
Because, well, I wrote this app and am packaging it, there is nothing to
diff with. What is the argument to not make a native package, by the way?

Kind regards,
Kilian