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Re: visualos

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 02:36:20PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org> [2004-06-23 11:33]:
> > VisualOS seems to be a native package. The previous maintainer was
> > also the upstream developer (it's a SourceForge project).
> > 
> > So should I convert this to a normal style package instead? Is it as
> > straightforward as renaming the tarball?
> 
> It's a native package which uses non-native version numbers... I think
> it should be non-native.  Ideally, obtain the upstream .tar ball, make
> a diff to the current package and use that as the Debian diff.  And
> when you build -3, include the new .orig.tar, but it will need another
> name as the one currently in the archive.  (Ugh, messy.)

A native tarball doesn't have '.orig.' in the name (plus it _does_ have
the debian-revision part of the version), so no name clashes, even if
you keep the upstream-part of the version number the same.

--Jeroen

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