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[Andreas Metzler]

On 2006-10-17 Hendrik-Jan Heins <hjheins at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2006/10/17, Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org>:
> >Debian doesn't use bzip2 files for source packages

> not? It does work with it. and in this case the difference is either a
> 32Mb or a 45Mb source package.

Eh, no. Your source package *is* 45Mb.
Quote 
http://bluebox.passys.nl/Debian/Experimental/iceape-1.0.5-4/iceape_1.0.5-4.dsc
| Files: 
|  ac7b4cbea17f325fb3cadf51c777826d 46154499 iceape_1.0.5-4.tar.gz

The tar.bz2 is not part of the source package.

> So in an "official" package it should be .tar.gz?

Yes. dpkg-source -x in sid/etch could extract debian source packages
consisting of
foo_1.2.orig.tar.bz2
foo_1.2-1.dsc
foo_1.2-1.diff.gz

however the ftp suite would reject such uploads and dpkg-dev cannot
generate such source packages. (Bug#382673)

> >> >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.

> So the .dsc should contain the diff and what about the diff? should it
> be applied already in to the source folder? (mine is, that's why
> there's no diff)
[...]

Just take a look at *any* (nonative) sourcepackage in debian e.g. 
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/swaks/swaks_0+20060621.0.orig.tar.gz
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/swaks/swaks_0+20060621.0-1.dsc
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/swaks/swaks_0+20060621.0-1.diff.gz

The orig.tar.gz contains the unmodified upstream sources (For iceape
you'll end up with something similar, original upstream minus
non-free)

swaks_0+20060621.0-1.diff.gz contains any changes to the sources.
swaks_0+20060621.0-1.dsc is a plain text file, read it.

cu andreas
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