On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:58:36 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > > You should not, dpkg-source copes well enough.
> > True, on the other hand the Developer's Reference suggests in
> > 6.7.8.2:
> > 4. should use <packagename>-<upstream-version>.orig as the name
> > of the top-level directory in its tarball.
> > Is this recommendation moot?
> No, not really. Note that in this case we were not talking about a
> repackaged tarball, but just one with the "bunzip & gzip" dance.
Ah, that's what I missed.
> Incidentally, the version in Debian was to be 4.0~beta1 instead of the
> upstream 4.0-beta1, and Pau wondered if *this* needed a repacking, which
> it did not.
> Hope that was clear enough. :-)
Totally, thanks for untangling my confusion.
Cheers,
gregor
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