Hi, From: Christoph Haas Subject: Re: mentors.debian.net rejects orig.tar."bz2" Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:15:52 +0100
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 05:40:44PM +0100, Patrick Winnertz wrote: > > > I've uploaded package to mentors.debian.net but it failed because > > > mentors rejects its orig.tar.bz2 file. > > > > > > It says "You just uploaded a diff file > > > (ttf-vlgothic_20071215-1.diff.gz) without an upstream tarball (should > > > have been 'ttf-vlgothic_20071215.orig.tar.gz')." I did it as > > > ttf-vlgothic_20071215.orig.tar.bz2. > I believe I recently read something about dpkg-buildpackage supporting > orig.tar.bz2 now. If that's true then I'll have to fix > mentors.debian.net. Can somebody give us a hint? This issue was discussed a few days ago on this list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/12/threads.html#00285 I know the ability to compress *binary* packages with bzip2 has been supported in dpkg-dev, as announced on debian-devel-announce: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/12/msg00007.html However, I don't know such an ability for *source* packages. I have found a changelog entry of dpkg as follows: dpkg (1.14.10) unstable; urgency=low (...snip...) * dpkg-source now correctly identifies the extension of the orig.tar.{gz,bz2,lzma} file and won't unexpectedly create "Format: 2.0" .dsc files. (...snip...) I think this means creating .dsc files including .orig.tar.bz2 is not an intended behaviour and is a bug of dpkg. Is this interpretation correct? # Yeah, I am one who wants to use orig.tar.bz2 if it is supported. Thanks, -nori -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
