Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > This is what you should do *if* you need to repackage upstream source. > That is only necessary if it: > - contains non-DFSG-compliant material, and you want to upload to main > - is not a gzipped tarball > - is divided into multiple tarballs > > It is not necesssary to repackage merely to change the directory name > (dpkg-source -x deals with that automatically) or to improve > compression. Mmm. Mentors should (and do!) reject packages that have been unnecessarily repackaged by checking their MD5 or SHA1 sums against the upstream version. -- Chris Lamb, Leamington Spa, UK GPG: 0x634F9A20
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