Re: non-pristine sources under pool/

[Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf@epkowa.co.jp>]

Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> writes:

> The tars differ because of the first directory:
> 
> gnu source:  bash-2.05b/
> orig source: bash_2.05b.orig/
> 
> I compared the output of ztf by hand and the order of 
> the files seems the same, just the starting directory differs.
> 
> Just curious, would the original tar.gz work?
> Or does the debian build system require .orig-extension?

Yes, if it is not a Debian native package.

# In my case, I have an automake-based GNU standards compliant native
# package and noticed that package-$v.tar.gz and package_$v.tar.gz
# were not the same (apart from the directory names).

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