.deb generated is (always?) native

[cfsmp3]

lintian is reporting this:

wrong-name-for-changelog-of-native-package

I don't see a why to specify that the package to generate is non-native.

[kornelski]

I don't get what lintian wants here. The description of the issue only says what native debian packages should do. Does it want changelog in a non-standard directory? Which one then?

[cfsmp3]

I don't get what lintian wants here. The description of the issue only says what native debian packages should do. Does it want changelog in a non-standard directory? Which one then?

I parse it as "this package shouldn't be native". Which I think is right, since the contexts of the .deb is not Debian specific.

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq#What_is_the_difference_between_a_native_Debian_package_and_a_non-native_package.3F

[kornelski]

It's unclear to me whether this is a technical concept (what bytes in the package make it non native?) or only a theoretical or administrative one (certain names or package sources are blessed)

[cfsmp3]

It's unclear to me whether this is a technical concept (what bytes in the package make it non native?) or only a theoretical or administrative one (certain names or package sources are blessed)

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debmake-doc/ch05.en.html#native

Section 5.5 explains a bit.

It could be better but well, it's a thread to pull 😊

[kornelski]

I've found sample "3.0" packages here: https://people.debian.org/~hertzog/packages/debsrc3.0/sample3_1.0-1_all.deb

and I don't see them specifying the version.