Re: tetex-3.0 and the repackaging of the orig.tar.gz files
On 22.11.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> schrieb:
> > On 21.11.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
Hi,
> > [.orig.tar.gz is not original and the transition.]
> >>
> > Hmm, a few others packages (like glibc) repack their tar balls
> > using bz2 and repack them into a .orig.tar.gz. I guess this is
> > not an option for us, as it would not show an texmf-tree. I
> > guess, we should keep it the way it is actually. I personally
> > expect (when doing dpkg-source) only a single subdir and not a
> > collection of different files. Maybe it is just a personal
> > preference...
>
> Maybe I understood you wrong, but if you do "dpkg-source -x
> tetex-base_not-repackaged....dsc", you will get only one new
> directory, tetex-base-$version. It is only below that directory
> that we will get more than two subdirectories (currently only
> debian/ and texmf/).
>
Hmm, i must admit I never checked that out. Sorry for confusion!
Nevertheless I guess, we should not destroy our CVS changelog, if it
is not too hard to keep it the it is actually.
H.
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