Re: help to fix lintian problems, native-package-with-dash-version etc

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 20:52:48 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:

>> >>   I: libpam-ssh-agent-auth source: missing-debian-source-format
>> > That's your main problem. Without debian/source/format assumed format
>> > is 1.0 which means both no tar.bz2 support and possibility of making
>> > the package native by accident.
>> 
>> So do you think unpacking upstream tarball then repack it and name it
>> as libpam-ssh-agent_0.9.5.orig.tar.gz would solve the problem? (Or, how
>> to solve it properly?)
> No, fixing missing-debian-source-format (by setting it to 3.0 (quilt))
> would.

Care to explain more on why renaming it to .tar.gz won't work please?

thanks