* Giulio Paci <giuliopaci@gmail.com>, 2012-11-05, 22:45:
Hi Boris, Il 05/11/2012 16:02, Boris Pek ha scritto:During the process I need to create a temporary directory. Should I delete it at the end of get-orig-source? Should I delete it in clean?Yes, only tarball should be left as a result. See Debian Policy §4.9 for details.Thank you very much. I still have some doubts, however: 1) what should be the name of the generated tarball?
The usual one :), i.e.: <package>_<upstream-version>.orig.tar.<extension>
2) what does "the original source tar file format described below" in Debian Policy §4.9 means? (I was not able to find the format described anywhere)
It looks like a bug in the Policy text to me.
3) what does "This target may be invoked in any directory" in Debian Policy §4.9 means? Does it mean, for example, that I cannot use the following command:uscan --download-current-version --destdir temporary?
You can't, unless you chdir to the directory that contains debian/{changelog,watch}. If you need an example, take a look at the openinbrowser package.
-- Jakub Wilk