On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 07:31:26AM +0100, Olivier Berger wrote: > > Hi. > > dget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.8.1-3.dsc and > uscan --verbose --force-download --download will download two tarballs that > have significant differences.
That's true, for the contents of the gforge_4.8.1.orig.tar.gz and fusionforge-4.8.1.tar.bz2. > > The source package seems to have been constructed by taking snapshots of > upstream's repository without reflecting this in the versioning scheme (or > upstream tarball contents evolved without changing the numbering). I was wrong... I was confused by the fact that the diff is applied by dget, and it includes some differences resulting from the snapshotting. > > This should be fixed, so that there's either patches added in the Debian > package to a fixed version's upstream tarball, or upstream version includes a > snapshot in the form of 4.8.1+svnYYYYMMDD or something similar. This no longer stands. Sorry. Still, I would vote for using dpatch for both Debian-related patches or upstream snapshotting, or otherwise only include dpatch in .diff.gz, and then provide +svn snapshotted upstream source tarball. The current situation is a bit confusing. Still, about the differences between contents of the two versions of the tarball... this may be clarified/fixed in any case (maybe adding a get-orig-source rule to do so). Best regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
