On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 03:26:05PM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > drwxr-xr-x dexter/dexter 0 2005-06-30 15:23:06 php-db-1.7.6.orig/ > -rw-r--r-- dexter/dexter 124807 2005-06-30 15:23:06 > php-db-1.7.6.orig/DB-1.7.6.tgz > > So *.orig.tar.gz contains really original archive with the same md5 hash as > PEAR package. The update from upstream is easy - in fact I need to run `pear > download DB' in the new `php-db-1.7.7.orig' directory if DB-1.7.7 will > appear. > > What do you think? so i'm not too familiar with this method of packaging, but it seems fairly reasonable to do what you want -- that is to keep the debian changes outside of the tarball, so you don't have to manually muck with new upstream tarballs at all most of the time. i'm personally a recent convert to the dpatch+svn+svn-buildpackage combo[1], but this is merely personal preference. sean -- [1] i track my ./debian dirs in svn, use dpatch to track all changes, keep upstream tarballs in a parent directory, and svn-buildpackage automatically assembles everything for me.
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