Re: orig.tar.gz

[Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:15:47AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.

So it is better to still keep the original tarballs.

Mmm, will do it this way next time.

Friendly,

Sven Luther