Re: On upstream source tarballs and dpkg-source
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:07:31AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> Hi, LI.
>
> On May 17 2009, LI Daobing wrote:
> > 1. download foo-1.2.3.tar.gz
> > 2. run "ln -s foo-1.2.3.tar.gz foo_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz", so debuild can
> > recognize that you already have a orig tarball
>
> Yes, I understood that. I just replied to comment that dpkg-source is
> more general than that, working with very weird package names.
I saw nothing in Li's comments that implied that he believed that
dpkg-source was unable to work with arbitrary directories in tarballs.
> Please, check my package hfsprogs to see what I mean. :-) I have
> completely overridden Apple's naming. :-)
I'm sure that Li is well aware of how dpkg-source works. I also think you
need to have an urgent and invasive emoticondectomy.
- Matt
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