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Re: dfsg suffix



On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 19:53, Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 26,October,2010 01:51 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 26,October,2010 01:45 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>>>> What dfsg suffix in package version is for?
>>>> In trac-bitten to be exact.
>>>
>>> It means that the tarball was repacked to meet DFSG[1] requirements.
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
>>
>> Does that mean that I need to figure out why tarball was repacked and
>> manually repack it again with the same changes to do new release?
>
> Yes, pretty much so. Or if the reasons do not apply any more, you can use the
> tarball as is.

No: if it's been repacked, it should be stated in debian/copyright
why, if not it's a bug (that should be filed it not there already);
also, a get-orig-source target in debian/rules would be nice to have.

Regards,
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