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Re: pristine sources?



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On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Erik Andersen wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 08, 1997 at 09:26:08PM -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > [ ... ]
> > You need a recent dpkg (ie from hamm). Then it is simply a matter of renaming
> > the existing upstream tarball according to our conventions, ie as
> > 	package_x.y-z.orig.tar.gz
> > and putting it above the current working directory. That does the trick.
>
> [ ... ]
> 
> But then how should I handle braindead upstream sources that unpack into
> the _current_ directory instead of doing what everyone else does and unpacking
> into their own directory?  For instance:
> 
> [...]
> 
> How do I pack this up using pristine source?

We (still) can't. Braindead upstream sources still have to be repackaged [*].
But we can use pristine sources for all the well-behaved ones.

[*] BTW: Now that dpkg supports it, I think that it would be a good idea
also to repackage now this braindead sources in the GNU style, i.e. 
uncompressing into <package>-<version> instead of <package>-<version>.orig.

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