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

[Will Lowe <harpo@udel.edu>]

On 28 Dec 1997, Ben Gertzfield wrote:

> 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..

1) Unzip the source and move it into the right directory:

	tar -xvzf package.version.tar.gz
	mv package.version/ whatever-version

2) rename the tar.gz

	mv package.version.tar.gz package-version.tar.gz

At least,  this is what I did for rosegarden and tclmidi,  and it built
and uploaded fine.  Make sure you keep package-version.tar.gz around and
use it for your next package,  because otherwise dinstall will complain
when it tries to install it into ftp.debian.org ... something about
"MD5sum doesn't match" ....

                     					Will


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