Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 02:08:59AM +0000, Sune Vuorela wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I am working on #338554 - and I am almost there. I have one big problem, >> though. >> >> Upstream did not run make distclean before releasing the tarball. Of >> course, linda and lintian complains about this. >> >> Should I add overrides for lintian warnings and linda _errors_ to >> address this problems - or is the right thing to unpack sources; >> make distclean; pack sources and call that .orig.tar.gz ?
Obviously you didn't read file:///usr/share/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-origtargz otherwise you wouldn't have forgotten "rename the directory to packagename>-<upstream-version>.orig". > What errors? I think the 3 typically justified cases for needing a > nonpristine tarball are: > > - non dfsg clean > - requires multiple source tarballs, or sourcetarball not tar.gz > format > - source tarball includes generated binaries > (is this your situation?) I don't think that generated binaries in the tarball justify repackaging - I think it is always possible to remove them in the clean target, which will always be called when dpkg-buildpackage is used. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
