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[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:02:00PM +0200, Hendrik-Jan Heins <hjheins at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2006/10/17, Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org>:
> >On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 12:52:57PM +0200, Hendrik-Jan Heins >
> >I don't understand how you generate your diff.gz and tar.gz files but
> >that is not the way it is supposed to be.
> >
> I make them by doing  "dpkg-source -x <packagename-version>.dsc (with
> the correct tar.gz next to it).
> next I do: "dpkg-source -b <extracted package dir> <sourcepackage>.tar.bz2
> 
> I used the standard seamonkey-1.0.5 source package as source for 2
> reasons: it works and it's a lot smaller as it is a tar.bz2

Debian doesn't use bzip2 files for source packages

> >You should have a .orig.tar.gz file and a diff.gz file. These can be
> >generated by dpkg-source -b or when building with dpkg-buildpackage,
> >just be sure a iceape_1.0.5.orig.tar.gz file is there when you do it.
> >
> see above. That's exactly what I do. Only my orig.tar.gz is called 
> seamonkey.

Look at the content of your dsc file. It only contains reference to your
iceape_1.0.5-4.tar.gz. A normal dsc file should contain
iceape_1.0.5.orig.tar.gz and iceape_1.0.5-4.diff.gz.

> >BTW, why is the diff significantly bigger than the one for seamonkey ?
> >and why a version number regression ? (not that it's a problem, just
> >curiosity)
> >
> That's because of the images in there. All images (the Debian logo and
> name, the Icape icon, the throbber) are part of the diff.

The Iceape icon and the throbber should be replacing the seamonkey files
in the iceape *source* tarball

Mike