Package: mercurial-buildpackage Version: 0.2 Severity: normal Hi,
the following gives a cryptic error: % mercurial-importorig ../upstream-1.0.tar.gz ../upstream-plugin-1.0.tar.gz E: Main tarball must follow dpkg format 3.0 It should say that the filenames must follow the right pattern for 3.0 (quilt) format. Actualy even better would be if the name does not matter. I would prefer if the following would work: % mercurial-importorig --version 1.2 /tmp/upstream.tar.gz /tmp/plugin.tar.gz It should import the 2 tarballs as version 1.2 and (optionally?) copy the 2 files to .. under the name expected by dpkg-source. Often (allways) upstream names the files different to what dpkg-source wants and having to rename them manualy prior to importing is tiresome. It would also be nice to have an --empty-orig option that would import an empty tar.gz (e.g. /usr/share/mercurial-buildpackage/empty.tar.gz) file as maintarball. I have several packages now that only have components and would like to avoid having to provide my own empty.tar.gz for importing. MfG Goswin -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (499, 'unstable'), (2, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages mercurial-buildpackage depends on: ii devscripts 2.10.55 scripts to make the life of a Debi ii libc6 2.10.1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libneko0 1.8.1-2 Lightweight virtual machine - shar ii mercurial 1.3.1-1 scalable distributed version contr ii neko 1.8.1-2 Lightweight virtual machine - comp ii pristine-tar 1.00 regenerate pristine tarballs Versions of packages mercurial-buildpackage recommends: ii pbuilder 0.192 personal package builder for Debia ii sudo 1.7.2p1-1 Provide limited super user privile mercurial-buildpackage suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org