Re: proposal: pseudo source packages

On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: Imagine a real source package where the maintainer made a mistake packing the .orig.tar.gz. Unce uploaded there's no way to notify others about a new packed .orig.tar.gz (unless check all your already downloaded sources agains the md5sums

Re: proposal: pseudo source packages

Michael Meskes wrote: : : Heiko Schlittermann writes: : Hm .., .orig.tar.gz isn't really empty. It would contain the unmodified : binaries (i386, m68k) and _no_ debian files. : But then these aren't sources. Thats why I called 'em `pseudo' sources. : Perhaps the .dsc file could include a

Re: proposal: pseudo source packages

David Frey wrote: : : [about xforms_0.81...] : xforms_0.81.tar.gz : xforms_0.81.dsc : : For the first 4 files it's ok. But the latter? Would somebody mind, : if I'd remove the debian/ from xforms_0.81.tar.gz and create a : xforms_0.81.orig.tar.gz and then the diffs for the debian

Re: proposal: pseudo source packages

[about xforms_0.81...] xforms_0.81.tar.gz xforms_0.81.dsc For the first 4 files it's ok. But the latter? Would somebody mind, if I'd remove the debian/ from xforms_0.81.tar.gz and create a xforms_0.81.orig.tar.gz and then the diffs for the debian changes only? I'm really