Re: How to include information about a source package ?

[Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>]

* Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) [060429 05:50]:
> Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> 
> >   http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-repackagedorigtargz
> 
>  4. should use <packagename>-<upstream-version>.orig as the name of the
>     top-level directory in its tarball. This makes it possible to
>     distinguish pristine tarballs from repackaged ones. +
> 
> that feels very ugly and ad hoc.  I'm not a fan of encouraging these kinds
> of heuristics, particularly when they're not widely followed in the
> archive at the moment and therefore not particularly useful to apply.

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Andi
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