On Tuesday 26,January,2010 06:44 PM, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > Hello all mentors, > > I am in the process of fulfilling an ITA filed on an orphaned package. > However, I now experience a desire to begin patching the upstream > source for compiling errors and spelling errors in the manual page. > > To my dismay the previous maintainer chose to let the 'orig.tar.gz'-file > contain the packaged and compressed upstream tar archive. My personal > taste is to abondon this practice, if for no other reason to simplify > the rules-file. > > Is there some reverence that should prevent me from taking the step > of letting a new 'orig.tar.gz' be a byte-for-byte copy of the upstream > source archive? I will make the new package conform to "3.0 (quilt)". > AFAIK the orig.tar.gz should be a byte-for-byte copy of the upstream source archive wherever possible, and packaging the upstream source archive within a separate, self-created orig.tar.gz is a practice to be avoided unless there is a very strong reason for it. I believe this holds true for both the 1.0 and 3.0 source formats. -- Kind regards, Chow Loong Jin
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