On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 05:48:52PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote: > Hi, I'm helping my NM applicant through with the package-building process, > and noticed that he used a .tar.gz for the *modified* source, with no > .orig.tar.gz for the pristine source. He claims that that's what debhelper > did when he set up the package -- is this a special case I missed, or is > something wrong here? IIRC .orig.tar.gz is mandatory for > non-Debian-specific packages right?
Right. He forgot to make .orig.tar.gz and/or put it in the right place before he ran dh_make on the package (debhelper has nothing to do with it). Additionally, this is a question for debian-mentors, not this list :) -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
