Re: upstream author only distributes in zip format
On Saturday 09 November 2002 19:08, Marc Nozell wrote:
> I'm starting to package up a tool and have some questions about
> 'pristine source'.
>
> * The upstream author only distributes as a ZIP file. Since
> dpkg-buildpackage, dh_make, etc only understand .tar.gz files,
> is it acceptable for me to grab the .zip, unpackage it, create
> a tar.gz and then start the packaging process? I'm not touching
> the contents of the archive, just the archive format.
>
> * The upstream author also names his releases as packagename-0+5i,
> the previous being packagename-0+4i. Along the same lines as
> above, is it acceptable to rename the file to packagename-0.5i?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -marc
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