Hi, I have been merging many BTS reports on maint-guide per Josip's loose approval. Can anyone look into my changes to proofread it (Debian site has been somewhat updated but I have more changes committed now. Now FAQ, NM, linda, pbuilder etc. are all mentioned. So you need to wait 1 day or so to be current.)
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ or specifically check correctness for the following sentences. (I welcome English grammar correction too.) Josip (or I if he agrees) will upload package after new year day, I hope. --------------------------------------- 9.3 The orig.tar.gz file If you simply copy contents of debian/ directory from old package into new upstream version of source tree and try to build package, you may end up with unintended result of creating a native source package which comes without diff.gz file. This type of packaging is allowed for the packages made only for Debian. [2] Here, you must have the upstream tar ball as orig.tar.gz file in the parent directory. Usually, this tar ball should untar to a source tree rooting from a directory with a name <packagename>-<upstream_version>/. In this cases, orig.tar.gz source file can be obtained by simply rename upstream tar ball to the original file name <packagename>_<upstream_version>.orig.tar.gz . Please note that the 2 changes exist between source tree directory name and the tar file name: * Change hyphen "-" to underscore "_" * Add "orig." before "tar.gz." The dh_make command usually takes care creation of orig.tar.gz file. ---------- [2] Some people argue that, even for the Debian specific package, it is a better practice to package the contents of debian/ directory residing not in the orig.tar.gz file but in the diff.gz file. --------------------------------------- >From changelog ---- * Add Korean translation by Yooseong Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . * Fix Policy chapter for changelog for all languages. (closes: #216405, #243339) * Fix debian/rule example for all languages. (closes: #244463) * List <package/xutils/ for all but ES and RU. (closes: #167395) * Fixed only in English. Still unfixed for translations. - Fix file location while introducing default.ent. (closes: #203609) - Add linda and pbuilder (closes: #287064) - Add mentors-FAQ URL (closes: #279312) - Add dupload example (closes: #114948) - Add -sa option, cvs-buildackage etc., dpatch. - Add Build dep method per virlon's debian-mentor posting. - Address issues of Debian native package. (closes: #128077) - Add reference to buildd and FTBFS in pbuilder. (closes: #138575) - Make working directory name consistent: ~/gentoo/ . (closes: #174816) - Minor wording polishes and tag updates. (closes: #258273) * Translation updated with CVS Osamu
