Bug#171221: openmotif: openmotif is not a native package
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:46:01AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 06:35:52PM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
>> Personally I prefer to rename the upstream tarball to .orig.tar.gz so it
>> is byte-for-byte identical (although this is technically violating
>> current policy which requires it to unpack into a .orig directory).
>
>I don't see anywhere in policy which requires this.
Well, perhaps not in policy proper but in the appendices to policy from
the Packaging Manual--"C.3. Source packages as archives":
"The tarfile unpacks into a directory `<package>-<upstream-version>.orig',
and does not contain files anywhere other than in there or in its
subdirectories."
--bod
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