Re: Lintian thinks a Non-Debian Native package is Debian Native
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Johan Van de Wauw
<johan.vandewauw@gmail.com> wrote:
> Paul,
>
> I'm not an expert, but it seems that your fluxbox_1.1.1+dfsg1-1.tar.gz
> contains your debian directory.
> You should repackage your upstream source doing the dfsg cleaning and
> make it fluxbox-*+dfsg.orig.tar.gz
> *Don't add your debian dir to the repackaged sources*
> (Apart from that, you should describe in debian/copyright which files were
> removed from the upstream release)
We just updated them. We got Upstream to relicense, and change their
tgz. I merged the new files + copyright head into the branch. I'll
note that, thanks :)
>
> Johan
>
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@ubuntu.com> 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 )
>>
>>
>> I'd love to get the package lintian clean again before he gets back.
>> Can anyone shed light on this[1] ?
>>
>> I'm pretty sure it's a small mistake on my part.
>>
>>
>> ( Yes I know about .git, yes, I know how to fix that one ;) )
>>
>>
>> Thanks, Mentors!
>> -Paul
>>
>> [1]: http://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/unera@debian.org.html#fluxbox
>>
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