Native Debian packages
Par jd le samedi, août 14 2004, 19:28 - Debian - Lien permanent
I wonder if I had to report bug against packages which are packaged as native Debian package (no diff.gz against upstream version).
I did it against xmms-alarm (#265701), but I know at least two or three more packages which have the same problem (and one of mine).
By the way, I do not know how to fix a such bug when you don't have any new upstream version. Maybe using an epoch is a possible solution, but I don't think it's a good one.
Commentaires
You can fix it without an epoch if no .orig.tar.gz was ever uploaded (for that version, of course). Simply grab the upstream tarball, create a version that is not debian native, and upload it. Since native packages have foo_1.0-1.tar.gz, and non-native ones have foo_1.0.orig.tar.gz, there will be no filename clash.
If there ever was an orig.tar.gz for that particular version, that's a harder case.
The wxwindows2.4 maintainer adds a "nano" version when he makes packaging revisions (e.g. "2.4.2.6" for the sixth package based on upstream 2.4.2), but this is not ideal for many reasons -- among other things, it's hard to tell which part is the upstream version.