Upstream source

[Benjamin Seidenberg]

Farzad FARID wrote:
> Sven Mueller wrote:
>   
>> Farzad, I'm not sure wether I understand you correctly. Does that mean
>> that you re-packaged the .orig.tar.gz? If so: You shouldn't do this,
>>   
>>     
> Yes I did... Actually I tried to blindly do something similar to the 2.2
> packaging. I think the 2.2 orig.tar.gz contains "configure" and
> "automake" related files that are updated, therefore different, from the
> upstream source. Is that right?
>   
No. These are regenerated at build time. 2.2 is the exact tarball
released from upstream. (As is 2.3, I know because I double checked the
md5/sha1 sums)
>> strictly speaking. If possible, the .orig.tar.gz should really be
>> identical (at least in content) to the source archive provided by
>> upstream. If that doesn't work out for you, please ask for help on the
>> list. I initially also repackaged the upstream source, removing all
>> auto-generated file from it, but eventually, that made package
>> maintenanve a lot harder when a new upstream version appeared which
>> included additional files (or deleted previously existing ones), since
>> you had to re-do all the re-packaging work essentially.
>>   
>>     
> The problem *may* actually be that using snv-builpackage (or
> pbuilder/cowbuilder for my part) hides theses problems.
>
> I *think* (and then again I have to check this all again) that the
> "debian/rules clean" suppresses files that are present in the upstream
> cyrus-imapd 2.3 tar.gz. Therefore, because I didn't want to touch too
> much to the "rules" file, and because "debuild" kept messing up my
> source tree, I switched to pbuilder.
>
> So, I asking for help and advise :) If we redo the orig.tar.gz the most
> impacted file will be 99-update-autoconf.dpatch, but we also have to
> update the "deletable files" list, right?
>
>  Regards,
>
>   
I'll take a look at your branch again, but I am fairly sure I was doing
multiple compiles of my 2.3 branch. Sorry, but I have to leave in 10
minutes and can't check it out now.

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