On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:42:20AM -0800, Joshua Kwan wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:16:17AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > Huh? I haven't looked at this, but why would one generate a new > > .orig.tar.gz that isn't original? .diff.gz bloat is to be lived with. > > I guess the line between keeping the diff.gz bloat and orig.tar.gz > constant with upstream is a gray area. > > For example, I've had to re-tar the Visual Boy Advance sources just now > because it extracted as VisualBoyAdvance-1.7.1 and not > visualboyadvance-1.7.1, as dpkg-source expects (or at least prefers.) Is > that not justified?
Not in my book, no. dpkg-source has been happy with .orig.tar.gz extracting to a different name for a long time now. To suppress warnings, you should just need to build from a directory called visualboyadvance-1.7.1. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
