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
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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.

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