On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 09:08:24AM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: > > Ideally if the package is released upstream as a .gz we should use the > > .gz. But when it's released as .gz and .bz2 as many things now are, we > > should probably use them. > > And what if it's released upstream as a .tar or a .tar.Z? what if it's released upstream as a .tar.gz that just has a few files, not even a directory? We use pristine source where we can. Where we cannot, we cannot. gzip can handle a .tar.Z AFAIK. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- <Crow_> hmm, is there a --now-dammit option for exim?
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