-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Christoph Haas wrote: > I don't think that it's completely evil to repack the upstream archive
I agree. On the other hand, the first thing prospective sponsor does is to download the upstream tarball upstream site and compare the checksum with whatever is in the .dsc. If they doesn't match the question is "Why? Did this maintainer put some backdoors and wants to mask them as simple repackaging?" A've read somewhere (but can't find it now :-( ) that it is highly prefered not to repack the upstream source unless there is a good reason for it (remove undistributable content f.ex.) > if it has strange formats or naming conventions. Examples are: > > - the archive is in .tar.bz format This can be converted using bz2cat | gzip > ...orig.tar.gz Hopefully, dpkg-source shall support .tar.bz2 .orig. files natively one day[1]... > - the archive is in .zip format > - the upstream provides a debian/ directory that you find unusable These are good reasons for repackaging too. dam [1] dpkg-source -b . ../package_version.orig.tar.bz2 does the right thing, despite a couple of warnings emited. However, there's no way to specify the second argument to dpkg-source via debuild - -- Damyan Ivanov 0x9725F63B Creditreform Bulgaria [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.creditreform.bg/ phone: +359(2)928-2611, 929-3993 fax: +359(2)920-0994 mob. +359(88)856-6067 ICQ 3028500 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/Gaim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDF/wgHqjlqpcl9jsRApVuAJ9nT0V3SqDmGQu5fusRtY8IOTyOPACfeiTe rB8lwM+8c4JvQayQLLSfLDw= =oZ/0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
