PEAR packages - how to repackage?

[Piotr Roszatycki <Piotr_Roszatycki@netia.net.pl>]

Hi.

I wonder how original PEAR packages should be repackaged into *.orig.tar.gz. 
In fact there is no original package anymore so it shouldn't be contains 
"orig". Another thing: there is no easy way to produce the newer "orig" 
archive so uupdate won't work.

My proposition is to package i.e. DB-1.7.6.tgz into php-db_1.7.6_orig.tar.gz:

drwxr-xr-x dexter/dexter     0 2005-06-30 15:23:06 php-db-1.7.6.orig/
-rw-r--r-- dexter/dexter 124807 2005-06-30 15:23:06 
php-db-1.7.6.orig/DB-1.7.6.tgz

So *.orig.tar.gz contains really original archive with the same md5 hash as 
PEAR package. The update from upstream is easy - in fact I need to run `pear 
download DB' in the new `php-db-1.7.7.orig' directory if DB-1.7.7 will 
appear.

What do you think?
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