[Pkg-Cyrus-imapd-Debian-devel] .orig.tar.gz orig vs. repacked

[Sven Mueller]

Ondrej Sury wrote on 31/08/2005 19:43:

>> 2) keep current, modified orig.tar.gz, but provide the
>>    get-orig-source target to do the modifications needed
>> [3: use prestine upstream tarball]
>> 4) Like 3, but make sure debian/rules clean leaves the tree in a
>>    state where debian/rules binary would produce the correct binaries
>
> 4a) and produces same diff.gz as first run
> 4b) creates different diff.gz
>
> I vote for 4b now and 4a in long term.

Hmm, currently, with the modified upstream tarball, two consecutive runs
of "dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -tc" _do_ provide the same diff.gz file.

So I would vote for (2) for now and 4a in the long term.

> You should build packages inside pbuilder before upload anyway, it
> can
> prevent lot of problems (in my experince with GNOME).

I know. But dpkg-buildpackage definately is faster than running pbuilder
or svn-buildpackage, which makes it a better option during development
in my opinion. I do run the build inside a pbuilder environment before
upload though.

cu,
sven

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