Hi, could someone else please read the discussion in #96458 answer Philippe? I'm tired of this frustrating discussion with someone who tried to make xv a native Debain package.
TIA Adrian PS: Please Cc me because I'm not on this list. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 07 May 2001 17:41:23 -0700 From: Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#96458: xv is NOT a native Debian package Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 7 May 2001, Philippe Troin wrote: > > > No, native vs. non-native is just the absence vs. presence of the > > debian revision suffix, but maybe I'm wrong. I could not find anything > > in the policy manual that says that native debian packages should have > > a .tar.gz source while the non-native debian packages should have a > > .orig.tar.gz + .diff.gz. > > > A good explanation is in the Developer's Reference: Developper's reference is not policy. > <-- snip --> > > 5.5. Packages > ------------- > > There are two types of Debian packages, namely _source_ and _binary_ > packages. > > Source packages consist of either two or three files: a `.dsc' file, > and either a `.tar.gz' file or both an `.orig.tar.gz' and a `.diff.gz' > file. > > If a package is developed specially for Debian and is not distributed > outside of Debian, there is just one `.tar.gz' file which contains the > sources of the program. If a package is distributed elsewhere too, > the `.orig.tar.gz' file stores the so-called _upstream source code_, > that is the source code that's distributed from the _upstream > maintainer_ (often the author of the software). In this case, the > `.diff.gz' contains the changes made by the Debian maintainer. > > The `.dsc' lists all the files in the source package together with > checksums (`md5sums') and some additional info about the package > (maintainer, version, etc.). I don't think there's anything in the policy that mandates that the non-native packages must come as a .orig.tar.gz and a .diff.gz. The .tar.gz contains the upstream source if you look into it. Phil.