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Debian Packaging Manual - Chapter 14
Conversion procedure from old source packages


This is a brief summary of the procedure for converting a pre-2.0.0.0-format source package into the new format.

You are strongly advised to download and examine the hello package, and to read the section in the dpkg programmers' manual describing the source packaging tools. More detail about the exact functionality of these tools is available in dpkg-source(1).

The use of -sa on dpkg-buildpackage and dpkg-genchanges is important when doing the first build/uploading of a new-format source package. Unless this happens to be Debian revision 0 or 1 by default the original source tarfile will not be included in the uploaded files listed in the .changes file, and so it won't be installed on the FTP site. -sa requests that the original source be included regardless.


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Debian Packaging Manual
version 3.1.1.1, 1999-11-22
Ian Jackson ijackson@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Revised: David A. Morris bweaver@debian.org
Maintainer: Christian Schwarz schwarz@debian.org
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava srivasta@debian.org
Maintainer: The Debian Policy group debian-policy@lists.debian.org