How to properly reference a source from Debian/Ubuntu in a SPEC file?

[Richard Shaw]

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Jochen Schmitt <Jochen at herr-schmitt.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 11:06:34AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
>> I have found an updated version and patches from Debian which is
>> version 0.1.5.9 which builds and works with my project but I can not
>  find any reference to where that source was obtained.
>
> I have get a look on ftp.debian.org and recorgnize, that this may
> a developers release created from the CVS.
>
> In this case the official way is to checkout the release from upstream
> CVS and create a tarball locally. In the SPEC file you should add
> a comment with a description how you have create the tarball from
> upstreams's CVS.

Unfortunately upstream's CVS doesn't appear to have the version I
need. Perhaps the appended ".9" to the version is really from Debian
to keep it from going FTBFS.


> Of corse there are projects which are official hosted by debian, so you
> can add a referenznce to to ftp server of the debian project.
>
> This may looks like
>
> Source0: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/<first_letter>/%{name}/...

I think this is the route I'll go. Thanks.

Richard