On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Nick Leverton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 08:22:37AM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >> Hey Mentors, >> >> >> My maintainer ( on Fluxbox ) is on vacation. I'm an Uploader. >> >> My package is whining that it's debian native, when Fluxbox is >> maintained outside of Debian. >> >> This cropped up after there were dfsg changes, but this is not why ( >> Lintian whines that we have a dfsg on a native package, as it should ) > > In my own experience, the commonest way of accidentally building a Debian > native package (a source format, nothing to do with where it's maintained) > is to have a wrongly named upstream tarball, which dpkg-source will not > associate with your package. > > For a package of fluxbox 1.1.1+dfsg1-1 your Debian revision is -1, > and the tarball should thus be fluxbox_1.1.1+dfsg1.orig.tar.gz. > Everything before the dash is counted as the upstream version number, > even when it's a result of DFSG re-packaging.
This makes a lot of sense. Thanks Nick, Nigel! > > Nick > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -Paul -- #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
