Re: orig tarball in conflict with debian policy
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On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:49:44 +0100
"Leo \"costela\" Antunes" <costela@debian.org> wrote:
>
> I may be jumping to conclusions here, but you mean the name of the
> archive is against policy because it's not in the
> "foo_x.y.z.orig.tar.gz" format?
>
The tarball was named foo-0.7.2.tgz which I have renamed to
foo-0.7.2.tar.gz (actually tar.bz2 since I prefer bzip2)
> Renaming it to the right format is perfectly in order in this case and
> the name of the base source directory doesn't really matter much.
>
The source package does not postfix the source folder with version
number which will cause lintian to complain.
Orig:
foo\
subdir1
subdir2
My suggestion:
foo-x.y.z\
subdir1
subdir2
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