Re: visualos

[Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org>]

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.)

Hmm. I've read the other emails regarding the new tarball having .orig in
the name. The version in sid/sarge is a released version + CVS stuff. It's
horrible. I'm going to deviate from my normal practise of not updating
upstream versions for my QA uploads and package the newer upstream
version...

regards

Andrew