Re: New xpm package...

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Michael Alan Dorman writes (on debian-user):
> In message <199602212305.RAA10178@hp-47.cae.wisc.edu>, Carl V Streeter writes:
> >Michael Alan Dorman writes:
> >>  3e451a56df398db562b8bcb6ec9516c6  xpm-3.4g-2.tar.gz
> >>  263234a843486ad1b1d5715c90228f5f  xpm-3.4g-2.diff.gz
> >>  78fbf5e43f6c828e9aa6e8fb0b6fd239  xpm4.7-3.4g-2.deb
> >>  34b38d7587c2cd5c2931f67a707114a3  xpm4.7-dev-3.4g-2.deb
> >The .tar and .diff should (probably) be named after the package name.
> >This is to trivial for me to consider it a bug ;)
> 
> While it's appropriate for this package, what about, say, ncurses,
> where some of the .deb files have to reflect the soname of the library
> but the majority don't?

IMO it's fine for a package's source filename to be different from its
binary filename, in cases like the one above (xpm).  Make sure,
though, that the .deb file has an appropriate `Source' field in its
control file.

Ian.