On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 19:53, Chow Loong Jin <hyper...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 26,October,2010 01:51 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Chow Loong Jin <hyper...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >>> On Tuesday 26,October,2010 01:45 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote: >>>> What dfsg suffix in package version is for? >>>> In trac-bitten to be exact. >>> >>> It means that the tarball was repacked to meet DFSG[1] requirements. >>> >>> [1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines >> >> Does that mean that I need to figure out why tarball was repacked and >> manually repack it again with the same changes to do new release? > > Yes, pretty much so. Or if the reasons do not apply any more, you can use the > tarball as is.
No: if it's been repacked, it should be stated in debian/copyright why, if not it's a bug (that should be filed it not there already); also, a get-orig-source target in debian/rules would be nice to have. Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinnn_qzkxwb5cev3i13vf4g_vuzyef_xdo3n...@mail.gmail.com
