On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 03:20:06PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> > Well, it's either that or change the build tools... either by adding a flag
> > to the control file, or by changing dpkg-buildpackage to refuse to build a
> > native package (abort and complain that no .orig.tar.gz was found) unless it
> > is explicitily told to do so.
> I still completely fail to see why this is exactly needed. The only
> reason I can see is detecting bogus uploads where they change from
> Debian native (ie without .diff.gz) to non-native or the other way around.
> And guess what: katie already detects that.
It doesn't really; it only keeps better track of whether the .diff.gz
and .orig.tar.gz are still needed than dinstall used to. It doesn't
issue rejections or warnings to the maintainer or anything.
Cheers,
aj
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