Re: Confusion about pristine original sources

[Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>]

Klee Dienes <klee@mit.edu> writes:

> as I recall we were in the middle of some sort of heated debate

When are we not?  Luckily we're a thick-skinned bunch.  Mostly.


Anyway, just so that everybody knows:

Version 1.4.0.13 (and higher) of dpkg-source have two important
improvements:

First, directories are allowed in patches.  (and yes, dpkg-source does
create them by hand, and does check that you're not patching something
outside the tree by following a symlink).

Second, restrictions on the .orig.tar.gz are quite reduced - they just
have to be .tar.gz and unpack into one unique directory.  dpkg-source
will rename the top level directory appropriately as it extracts.
Note that this applies to debian-specific packages too, so you don't
have to keep renaming the directory every time you release a new
version.

So if you want to have pristine original sources (and who wouldn't?),
just rename the original tar.gz and proceed as usual.


Guy


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