From: Kobayashi Noritada Subject: Re: mentors.debian.net rejects orig.tar."bz2" Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:50:09 +0900 (JST)
> 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? Oops, I also find: dpkg (1.13.9) unstable; urgency=low (...snip...) Improvements to dpkg-source (Brendan O'Dea): (...snip...) * Native and upstream tarballs may be bzip2-compressed instead of gzip, as may the debian diff or tarball. (...snip...) So, bzip2-compressed tarball has been actually supported since 2005? -nori -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
