Hello, I've used the debtransform functionality of the buildservice and I'll like to propose the two attached patches: 1) Debian-based distros require the tarball to be .tar.gz , which is annoying with cross-distro packaging. This patch adds support for using .tar.bz2 or .zip and debtransform converts the archive to .tar.gz , in addition to renaming it as it does now. I've tested this locally with osc build and it seems to work fine. If this is accepted, can you give me an estimate for when it gets deployed? It'd save me a bit of writing in a howto, but I don't insist :). 2) Applying patches using debian.series has a different default for the -p argument of patch. While .spec defaults to -p0, debtransform defaults to -p1. This is again annoying with cross-distro packaging. This is a backwards-incompatible change, but I would consider this to be a bugfix and I expect there aren't many packages that rely on the default in debtransform now, because of it not being consistent with .spec . -- Lubos Lunak KDE developer -------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 972 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz