Nick Leverton wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 01:44:01PM +0200, Kilian Valkhof wrote: > >> Nick Leverton wrote: >> >>> Have you checked that your upstream tarball is named correctly ? >>> >>> >> Thanks, I now have that, lintian gives me an "empty-debian-diff" error. >> Because, well, I wrote this app and am packaging it, there is nothing to >> diff with. What is the argument to not make a native package, by the way? >> > > Debian native package format is intended for things which are only of any > use for Debian itself, like dpkg and apt. As you've seen, dpkg-source > uses indications like absence of an upstream tarball and absence of a > dash in the version number to guess what it is supposed to be producing. > > For packages which might be useful on any distro or even outside of Linux, > it's preferred to keep the debian/ directory (containing your packaging) > out of the normal tarball, and to incorporate it in the .diff.gz. > > I have: /trimage_1.0.2.orig.tar.gz (containing the whole source but not debian/) /trimage_1.0.2.diff.tar.gz (containing just debian/) /trimage-1.0.2/ (from which I build, containing both)
Yet the empty-debian-diff error persists. What am I doing wrong? Kilian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c07e917.6090...@kilianvalkhof.com
