Re: [policy] orig.tar.gz unpacking to surprisingly named subdir! (Re: orig.tar.gz)
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 02:01:31PM -0800, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> [ObCrossposts: We should decide what list to discuss this on.]
Not all of them, obviously. I'm cutting it back to -devel.
> >> of my packages have .orig.tar.gz which unpack into directories
> >> with no version number at all, and sometimes even a different name.
> >> eg geda-gschem unpacks just as 'gschem/'.
>
> Henrique> I thought that would be the case (many .origs not unpacking to
> Henrique> foo-1.2.3.orig).
>
> This is very bad. What if I have (and I do have something like...)
[long example]
Note that the name apt-get or dpkg-source extract to has -nothing- to
do with the name in the tarball. This is a necessary behavior, because
it allows the use of pristine upstream source tarballs, which we try
greatly to do.
Dan
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