On Sunday 03 September 2006 17:10, Eric Cooper wrote: > The upstream tarball for a package I maintain is in .tar.bz2 format. > I've been downloading it and recompressing it into .tar.gz format. > This seems like a very common situation. > > 1. Should I still follow the section on "best practices for > .orig.tar.gz files" in the Developer's Reference, and include a > README.Debian-source file and a get-orig-source target in > debian/rules?
You might want to look at debian/rules:get-orig-source in the sofia-sip source package and grab & adjust that target for you as well. In short: match the your md5 hashsum (or sha1) of the bz2 tarball you have already audited (inspected, checked or whatever) against the tarball found on the upstream location; then repackage it as debian-style orig.tar.gz. I think this is self-documented, and hardly warrants extra file like README.Debian-source. > 2. Should I automate the bunzip2 & gzip in the debian/watch file? Well, just watch the bz2 tarball here. > (I don't think I can justify asking upstream to publish a more > wasteful version of the same bits on his website just to suit Debian.) True. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
