Re: debian .orig.tar.gz vs. upstream tar.gz

[Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>]

Hi,

Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil@imsc.res.in> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Jörg Sommer wrote:
>> > Do *not* get the upstream .tar.gz which may have changed for some
>> > mysterious reason.
>> 
>> I don't think the upstream tar.gz have changed, but your orig.tar.gz is
>> not the same as the upstream tar.gz. This happens if the orig.tar.gz was
>> repacked to rename the top directory to <package>-<version>.
>> dpkg-buildpackage -S does this as described by Policy C.4.
>
> Section C.4 describes how to unpack the source without dpkg-source
> not how it is repacked by dpkg-buildpackage

Right, but it's said there that you find a directory
<package>-<version>.orig. A simple program may fail, when it follows
the instructions in section C.4.

Bye, Jörg.
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