Re: RFS: trimage

[Kilian Valkhof <kilian@kilianvalkhof.com>]

Nick Leverton wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 01:44:01PM +0200, Kilian Valkhof wrote:
>   
>> Nick Leverton wrote:
>>     
>>> Have you checked that your upstream tarball is named correctly ?
>>>   
>>>       
>> 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?
>>     
>
> Debian native package format is intended for things which are only of any
> use for Debian itself, like dpkg and apt.  As you've seen, dpkg-source
> uses indications like absence of an upstream tarball and absence of a
> dash in the version number to guess what it is supposed to be producing.
>
> For packages which might be useful on any distro or even outside of Linux,
> it's preferred to keep the debian/ directory (containing your packaging)
> out of the normal tarball, and to incorporate it in the .diff.gz.
>
>   
I have:
/trimage_1.0.2.orig.tar.gz (containing the whole source but not debian/)
/trimage_1.0.2.diff.tar.gz (containing just debian/)
/trimage-1.0.2/ (from which I build, containing both)

Yet the empty-debian-diff error persists. What am I doing wrong?


Kilian