On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 01:51:34PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: <snip> > > It looks like debians tarball has been repacked, it extract bash to > > bash-2.05b.orig whereas upstream extract to just bash-2.05b, all the file > > stats are different as well, i dont know why it was done though. So, are we concluding that a package really should use the pristine upstream tarball as the "original" source? If so: 1. Should the file name be changed to contain .orig (is this required?) 2. Is it a bug if a package doesn't use a pristine upstream tarball? Regards, Chris
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