[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: pristine-tar and upstream zip



Felix Natter <fnatter@gmx.net> writes:

> as far as I understand Debian packaging, the .orig.tar.{gz,bz2} shall
> have the same checksum as the original upstream tarball (by using
> pristine-tar). This worked for me when the upstream tarball is *.tar.gz,
> but in a package libidw-java, where the upstream tarball is *.zip, this
> does not seem to work:

*.zip is not a supported upstream compression format in the Debian
archive, so git-buildpackage is converting it to something else for you.
You will have to repack an upstream distribution in *.zip format to
something else, I'm afraid, and therefore won't be able to use the
upstream distribution verbatim.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


Reply to: