On upstream source tarballs and dpkg-source
On May 12 2009, LI Daobing wrote:
> and you need not (or should not) repack the upstream tarball if the
> upstream tarball is already in .tar.gz format. rename or make a soft
> link is enough.
There's no need to use a symlink. dpkg-source is smart enough to
understand a lot of odd-ball tarballs. See, for instance, my package
hfsprogs (which Apple calls "diskdev_cmds" or something similar).
If you unpack the orig.tar.gz from my package, you can see that
dpkg-source even renames the directory that would be created to
something that we want.
Regards, Rogério Brito.
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