Thank you for the response.
My relevant directory looks something like this:
kabikaboo_1.1-3_i386.changes
kabikaboo_1.1/ kabikaboo_1.1-3_i386.deb
kabikaboo_1.1-3_amd64.changes kabikaboo_1.1-3_i386.deb.asc
kabikaboo_1.1-3_amd64.deb kabikaboo_1.1-3_i386.upload
kabikaboo_1.1-3_amd64.deb.asc kabikaboo_1.1-3.tar.gz
kabikaboo_1.1-3_amd64.upload
kabikaboo_1.1-3.dsc
I tried changing from "kabikaboo-1.1" to "kabikaboo_1.1". Maybe this
was unnecessary, I still got the warning.
I tried changing the version "1.1-3" to "1.1_3" in "changelog", but it
said: dont use underscores!
I dont have any *.orig.tar.gz files, I dont recall ever having one.
I'm at a bit of a loss. I will try again tomorrow when I have am able
to drink coffee again.
cheers
Dave Kerr
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In <[email protected]>, Dave Kerr wrote:
Well the system e-mailed me back and said :
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Your package does not seem to be lintian clean.
'lintian' is a tool to verify if source package contain obvious
packaging errors. These warnings/errors were found:
W: kabikaboo source: native-package-with-dash-version
N:
N: Native packaging should only be used if a piece of software was
written
N: specifically to be turned into a Debian package. In this case, the
N: version number should not contain a Debian revision part.
N:
N: Native source packages are sometimes created by accident. In most
cases
N: the reason is the location of the original source tarball.
dpkg-source
N: searches for this in
../package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
You should be using non-native packaging for your package.
Fixing this is probably just an issue of renaming your .orig.tar.gz. If
your package is version 1.0-1 you should be using "package_1.0.orig.tar.gz"
not "package_1.0-1.orig.tar.gz". In general the .orig.tar.gz name will not
include the debian revision part of the non-native package version.
I swear I was tricked by the "lintian" tool.
Lintian is undergoing constant improvement. You should make sure and use
the lintian version from Sid. You can use apt-pinning to get lintian from
Sid while continuing to get other packages from stable/testing/whatever. If
you are using pbuilder to build your package inside a Sid chroot (packages
for uploading to unstable should always be built in a Sid environment), you
can use a post-build hook to run Sid's lintian against the package.
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