Re: How to include information about a source package ?
Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> writes:
> * Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) [060429 05:50]:
>> 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.
> If you think something is broken in the developers reference, please
> help us to fix it.
Oh, I will if it seems warranted. Right now, it's just a gut feeling on
my part, which shouldn't matter a tremendous amount to anyone. If I feel
there's any sort of consensus or if I have a concrete suggestion, I'll
definitely file an actual bug.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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