Re: create orig.tar.gz

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 09:47:56PM +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
> > Exist some way to create <project>_<version>.orig.tar.gz from
> > <project>-<version>.tar.gz without complete debianization? And make
> > md5 for both files identical?
>
> Yes, just rename the original tarball to
> "<project>_<version>.orig.tar.gz". The orig.tar.gz is supposed to
> contain the tarball like you receive it from upstream.

It is also common to have the original tarball keep the same name, and
‘ln -s foo-x.y.z.tar.gz foo_x.y.z.orig.tar.gz’. That way, manually
checking the same file again won't cause confusion since it still has
the name given by upstream.

This is the default behaviour for ‘uscan --download’, IIUC.

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