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Re: how orig must orig.tar.gz be?



On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 03:08:41PM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote:

> orig.tar.gz should contain the original upstream source as it is
> shipped from upstream. You can use the debian/rules file (which will
> appear in the diff.gz file) to specify which files actually get added
> to the debian package. That is how you can exclude the precompiled
> binaries.

It might be worth asking the upstream authors to distribute separate
binary tarballs.  I suspect the main concern here is space rather than
the ability to exclude the binaries.

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