[maemo-developers] Packaging questions

[From: Ajai Khattri]

On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Jeremiah Foster wrote:

> This means you do not have an original tarball of your package that has the suffix orig.tar.gz.
> 
> Take a look at the debian documentation here which should help: http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-first.en.html#s-dh_make

Hmmm.. the docs says:

"After this execution of dh_make, a copy of the upstream tarball is 
created as gentoo_0.9.12.orig.tar.gz in the parent directory to 
accommodate the creation of the non-native Debian source package with the 
diff.gz."

Which seems to imply that dh_make creates the orig tarball...

UPDATE: I used the -f flag to point to the original tarball "outside" the 
build directory and it seems to have worked.



-- 
Aj.