Re: orig.tar.gz

[Henrique M Holschuh <hmh+debianml@rcm.org.br>]

On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:49:49AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> > I didn't receive warnings from any tools (otherwise it wouldn't have taken
> > months for me to notice the problem).
> 
> Oh? I notice that dpkg-source complains about when building the
> .diff.gz; it says something like "warning: upstream source does not
> unpack into packagename-version."

I tried it again, and for foo-1.2.3 it outputs no warnings. If I use foo
only (or something even weirder), then the warning shows up.

So dpkg-source officially acknowleges foo-1.2.3 and foo-1.2.3.orig as good
.orig.tar.gz unpack destinations.

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  Henrique Holschuh