Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: FreeDiams freediams_0.4.2-1_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into Debian

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 05:03:51PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> On 2010-07-14, at 2:14 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 
> > Just follow your normal release cycle and ping me if a new version is
> > released (and please remember to drop the 'orig' from the tarball.  I'll
> > care for packaging it and will upload....
> 
> Hi, is the above dropping of 'orig' for human disambiguation, or is it part 
> of the method of replacing what is (already) in the Debian unstable-->testing 
> flow

It is being used by "standard" Debian packaging procedures
to clearly label a tarball as "this came from upstream" as
opposed to a tarball produced locally during packaging that
contains Debian-related patches which are not (yet)
upstream.

IOW:

- packager downloads our tarball
- calls it .orig
- applies Debian-side patches to a copy of it
- now drops the .orig from the patched copy
- creates .debs from the patched copy

Karsten
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