Re: Source directory name

[Steve Greenland <stevegr@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>]

Michael Meskes wrote:
> 
> I just talked to Ian about the name of the source dir in our new source
> format. Since we're changing the format anyway I think we should use the
> same format for source and binaries. For instance I'd like to name the
> modules source file modules_2.0.0-8.tar.gz, the binary
> modules_2.0.0-8_i386.deb and the directory in which the source is stored IMO
> should be modules_2.0.0.
> 
> Comments anyone?
> 
Are you talking about the directory on the ftp sites (if there is such),
or the directory into which the source is unpacked? If the latter, then
it seems gratuitously different from the way the normal upstream source
would unpack, for no obvious benefit.

(I mean obvious to me. Maybe I'm missing something. I often do :-))

Steve Greenland

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