On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 18:53:48 -0000 (-0000), Vic wrote:
> So my source package should just contain the libbar tarball, my patches,
> and some build scripts, right? That's what the source RPM does. But the
> Debian packaging system requires all the files in the source package -
> which are all listed in the .dsc file - to be called "libfoo<something>".
> So I cannot just include the upstream tarball - the package will not
> build.
Er, maybe I'm missing something here but what I do is:
a) rename upstream tarball to libfoo_1.2.3.4.orig.tar.gz
b) explode tarball into libfoo-1.2.3.4
c) patch, put debian directory in place with rules file etc
d) dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
e) that generates libfoo_1.2.3.4-1.diff.gz and the .dsc file
Which means I have pristine upstream tarball, diff and dsc. Which is
what you asked for AFAICT.
Whilst I like rpms ability to have multiple patches, I don't like the
way they include the source tarball (since that's normally a large
file) I want to download that separately.
Adrian
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