-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Juan Jesús Ojeda Croissier schrieb: > Hi :-) > > Before nothing, sorry for my mistakes about mount-systray ackage and > the native and non-native packages. Your comments and the mentor's FAQ > help me a lot. > > Well, I have one doubt about the version. What I understand from the > policy[1] is that for the package mount-systray, the version should be > something like: > mount-systray-0.5.3-1 > uptream version = 0.5.3 > debian version = 1
Yes. > > But then lintian tells me I need a *.orig.tgz (which I haven't) or if > I created a *.orig directory, then tells me the diff is empty and so > on. I (or actually we -> Guadalinex team) am upstream and we maintain > the code with the debian files all together. I know that it's better > not to do that and separate the code and the debian files, but, at > least by now, we have that way. You have, it is the src tarball. It has to be named this way: <source_package_name>_<upstream_version>.orig.tar.gz e.g.: mount-systray_0.5.3.orig.tar.gz > > The thing is if I put the version like 'mount-systray-0.5.3debian1', > which I have seen in some packages, lintian doesn't say a word. > > My question is, what is the difference between both version ways? Because it is a native version, it hasn't got a debian revision, which starts with the _last_ '-'. > > And also a kind of retorical one (I guess I know already the > answer...), do I really need to separate the app code from the debian > packaging files? isn't there another option? There is, but it is wrong and it will not get uploaded. > I guess we'll have to slit them :-/ > > Thanks in advance for your time and your anwsers :-) > Cheers > > [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version - -- /* Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind regards, Patrick Matthäi GNU/Linux Debian Developer E-Mail: [email protected] [email protected] Comment: Always if we think we are right, we were maybe wrong. */ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpKQT0ACgkQ2XA5inpabMdxqgCfXEEATvFxK66zqRr7KotLn7aE 0xkAn3iwERBwUAxelkGggcLHDfgY5lvJ =e5hs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
