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Re: More flexible source format (was Re: gdb is broken?)



Roman Hodek wrote:

>  - There should be something to handle .orig.tar.gz files that do not
>    unpack into a subdirectory. (So that also such sources can be
>    pristine.)

I thought it was okay to unpack upstream sources, move them (perhaps
renaming the source directory to PACKAGENAME-VERSION) and then recreate a
_new_ .orig.tar.gz file.

Is this wrong?
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