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Re: howto get rid of native-package-with-dash-version?



On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 11:32:01PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote:
> 
> Ok but one question remains: When I unpacked the original sources, I had to
> rename the resulting dir to calm dh_make down -- when I now unpack the .zip
> in order to make an .orig.tar.gz out of it, do I have to rename the dir too
> or has the .orig.tar.bz an exact copy of the .zip?

Usually, it is a good idea to keep the original tarball as it is, so the
directory it unpacks to should not be changed.  dpkg-buildpackage will handle
it if it doesn't unpack to the "correct" name.  The reason for keeping the
original is as far as I understood it that the md5 checksum is the same as the
distributed version.

However, since your distribution is a zip file, and not a tar.gz, that doesn't
work anyway.  So you can make it the renamed directory I guess.  But there's
not really any reason to do so, as dpkg-buildpackage doesn't need it.  So I
would just unzip, then tar -czf, and name it .orig.tar.gz.

Hope this helps,
Bas Wijnen

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