On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 06:00:31PM +0100, Jan Kesten wrote: > > .deb. The .deb *is* the source package, just with a control file > > and a copyright file and whatever, and compressed and relocated as > > necessary to /usr/share/. > > ACK. Forgot to mention - since my package uses dh_compress the mailbox > will be stored gziped as it is put to /usr/share/doc. Very good.
> Some thing I didn't mentioned before: > > dpkg-source: warning: source directory `./debian-user-german-200202' is > not <sourcepackage>-<upstreamversion> `debian-user-german-200202-1' It seems its not a native package? I think the changelog is consulted to get the package version (but it must agree with the control file and the directory name?). Meh, apt-get source debian-goodies for details:) It might be complicated to do what you want because you're including a date in the package name, which I think will be interpretted as a version number unless you include something after the date, or unless you include a separate version number .. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

