Re: Original sources, or not

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 01:21:16PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> How about changing the tarball name if the source has been modified by
> debian.
> 
> The name .orig.tar.gz does tend to indicate its the original source
> rather than the debian modified source.
> 
> Perhaps tarballs that arent the original source should remove the .orig
> and just use .tar.gz, or use some other extension such as
> debian.tar.gz

The current practice seems to effectively change either the name of the
source package or the version, The orig extension is retained since it
just indicate that there is a .diff.gz file.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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