Re: Policy about use of upstream source as .orig.tar.gz

[Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Gregor" == Gregor Hoffleit <flight@thefly.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de> writes:

    Gregor> Lately, I've run into a few packages that had an
    Gregor> .orig.tar.gz source archive (gimp was among them, I think)
    Gregor> that was different from the upstream source distribution,
    Gregor> although there were no changes to the sources.

Yeah, this is something I did to get dpkg-source to stop whining at me
that the directory was not named <package>-<version>. The gimp
packages are all probably incorrectly sourced, but I don't know how to
do it properly :)

I couldn't find the proper place in the policy manual that talks about
how to do it correctly, however. If someone could clue me in as to how
to do it right..
	
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