On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 08:04:48PM +0900, Arnaud Fontaine wrote: > >> After preparing the upload, I noticed that the upstream tarball you > >> provided and the one available on tuxonice.net website differs (which > >> provides .tar.gz whereas it's in fact a tar archive only). I will > >> then upload using the official upstream tarball if that's ok with you > >> of course? > > > > Do you want to provide .tar.gz which is really .tar or recompress it > > yourself? > > It must be compressed anyhow as this is required by dpkg-source. Maybe > the upstream should be notified about this to avoid the same issue for > the next release. Then, I will compress it and upload it as it > is. Thanks for your quick reply ;-). OK, please proceed with that. > FYI, in most cases, you should not repackage the upstream tarball[0] and > thanks to 3.0 (quilt) format, this is not needed to do so even when the > upstream provides a debian/ directory. If you need to repackage it for > some reason, it should be specified. I've used the upstream git but I don't remember why I didn't use the official tarball. -- WBR, wRAR
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