Re: On upstream source tarballs and dpkg-source

[LI Daobing <lidaobing@debian.org>]

Hello,

2009/5/17 Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>:
> 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.
>
I mean:

1. download foo-1.2.3.tar.gz
2. run "ln -s foo-1.2.3.tar.gz foo_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz", so debuild can
recognize that you already have a orig tarball



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Best Regards
LI Daobing