help to fix lintian problems, source format

[Tong Sun <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

> Quoting T o n g (2013-07-08 14:15:37)
> > 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?
> 
> It wouldn't work as dpkg wouldn't be able to unpack it, since the
> compression format hasn't changed, only the filename.

Hi, 

Thanks a lot for your detailed explanation Simon. 

What buried in my original question was "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?" By repacking, I did mean repack it properly, i.e., changing the format. I don't understand why it won't work. 

Thanks