Re: dpatch & upstream source

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Hi,

> I'm working on some big changes for the new upstream of the erlang packages.  
> The biggest change is that the package is now fully using dpatch, *but*, 
> basing myself on some other package I've seen (coreutils for example), I've 
> put the compressed upstream right in the package.  It is extracted using a 
> dpatch scriptlet.
> 
> Is it okay to do that, for one thing?

Out of interest, I would be interested in the advantages of having a 
tarball like that.

DBS used to do that, and dpatch users (in my impression) were
those who didn't like that doubly tar-ed orig tarball.

regards,
	junichi