Bug#743830: rtmpdump: orig.tar.gz significantly different from actual upstream version

[Max Bowsher]

On 07/04/14 02:51, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Package: rtmpdump
> Version: 2.4+20121230.gitdf6c518-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> The contents of rtmpdump_2.4+20121230.gitdf6c518.orig.tar.gz is
> significantly different from actual upstream commit df6c518.
> 
> It looks to me as if assorted upstream changes have been reverted or
> were never merged, in a rather confusing and undocumented way.
> 
> Max.
> 

Some further investigation suggests that when the package was upgraded
from 2.4+20111222.git4e06e21 to 2.4+20121230.gitdf6c518, Git was handled
incorrectly, and none of the upstream changes were actually applied to
the packaging branch.

Max.