On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 04:38:51PM +0200, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:08:51AM -0400, christophe barbe wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:23:56PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > > > Yes, gdesklets-data is a debian native package (ie: there is no upstream > > > tarball corresponding to this archive). > > > > Thanks for the explaination. > > > > > -n version are revision on a same upstream tarball, but in this case we > > > don't have any .orig.tar.gz .... > > > > Is there something preventing the use of a .orig.tar.gz tarball. It > > would be nice to see a .orig.tar.gz containing only upstream bits and > > the debian stuff in the diff, for review purpose and for bandwith > > saving. > > Again. It's a debian _native_ package, there is no such thing as > "upstream" in native packages.
That's an obviously circular argument. Why is it native if it wasn't "written especially for Debian" (policy 3.2.1)? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]