Felix Natter <[email protected]> writes:

> as far as I understand Debian packaging, the .orig.tar.{gz,bz2} shall
> have the same checksum as the original upstream tarball (by using
> pristine-tar). This worked for me when the upstream tarball is *.tar.gz,
> but in a package libidw-java, where the upstream tarball is *.zip, this
> does not seem to work:

*.zip is not a supported upstream compression format in the Debian
archive, so git-buildpackage is converting it to something else for you.
You will have to repack an upstream distribution in *.zip format to
something else, I'm afraid, and therefore won't be able to use the
upstream distribution verbatim.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([email protected])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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