Re: freebsd-manpages upstream tar ball format

[Gürkan Sengün <sengun@phys.ethz.ch>]

On 08/21/10 01:54, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Julien Cristau wrote:
> > > - freebsd-manpages 8.1-1: this one is a new upstream version that has
> > >    just been uploaded, but it only contains documentation. The goal is to
> > >    have the documentation in sync with the code (all the kfreebsd related
> > >    packages have been upgraded to 8.1).
> > It'd be nice if stuff wasn't hidden away in binary files so debdiff
> > would work, but unblocked.
>
> That's basically the reason why I haven't sponsored that package
> already about three weeks ago:
>
> Upstream distributes the tar ball in a dozen (or so) 1.44 MB sized
> chunks which IIRC give concatentated together a tar ball. Why do we
> then use a tar ball of those files as orig.tar.gz instead of the
> concatenated tar ball produced out of these files?

I agree, please send suggestions on what to do extactly after having
them downloaded. cat them together into manpages.tar.gz, gunzip then
create an orig.tar.gz of that?

Gurkan