Re: orig.tar.gz

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:33:05PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> Should I be filling a wishlist bug against lintian, or is it ok (although
> not optimal) to have .orig.tar.gz files unpacking at foo-1.2.3 instead of
> foo-1.2.3.orig ?

The tools give warnings, but it really doesn't matter. Quite a lot
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/'.


regards
Hamish

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