Re: orig.tar.gz
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:24:16AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:54:28AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 11:46:51PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> > > okay. and i still believe that it even makes sense to have .orig
> > > stored in the .orig.tar.gz file.
> >
> > No. Pristine source helps users trying to see if you're distributing the
> > same thing upstream is.
>
> Well, very often upstream distributes package foo as dir foo only, not
> as foo-1.2.3, so you have to repackage it anyway, or am i missing
> something ?
dpkg-source has supported this since 1997. You don't need to repack such
tarballs.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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