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Re: dfsg suffix



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.

-- 
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin

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