On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
Hi all, What is the proper way of dealing with a orig tarball where both naming and internal structure is in conflict with debian policy? Especially the internal structure is a problem since it prevents using the dh-tools in debian. example: orig tarball: foo-y.y.z.tgz internal structure: foo\...
Really a backslash?If you mean it's a forward slash, the Debian tools handle this case more gracefully than you might expect, I think. Go forward and act as if nothing's wrong, and when you have a problem, be specific about what it is.
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