Hi On 2006-05-15 Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Christian Hammers wrote: > > When uploading to www.backports.org it would be quite handy to have a > > --with-orig that uploads the .orig.tar.gz file as well. > I'm not quite sure I do understand your request: The question whether or > not the orig.tar.gz is uploaded needs (in the current regime of archive > software) to be addressed at the time of the generation of the .changes > file. Can you explain in a little more detail how the option could be > implemented in dput?
Normally the .orig.tar.gz is only uploaded with the -1 version and thus dpkg-buildpackage puts it only at this versions in the .changes file. When uploading to www.backports.org I never have -1 versions, there will be .0bpo1 for the code that I also uploaded to unstable as -1 so that somebody who upgrades from sarge to sarge+1 will upgrade automatically from the backported .0bpo1 to the "newer" -1 version. For these cases and those where people upload a backported package for the very first time at all with e.g. a -5bpo1 version, the orig.tar.gz has to be uploaded as well. I'm not sure about uploads to 'experimental'. If it's not the same buildd it might be necessary there, too. Same if people upload packages irregulary to other buildds like Debian GNU/FreeBSD maybe. It works for backports.org if I just upload the orig.tar.gz by ftp so the patch should be fairly easy :) bye, -christian- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
