On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 10:24:27PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Hello! > > I sometimes read something like "as we can now easily provide pristine > source packages...". > I wonder how I can provide the original tar ball if it > > a) has not the right name (ok, could rename it)
Yes. That's no problem at all. :-) > b) does not extract in the right directory (for example, foo-version instead > foo-version.orig). That's no problem at all! :-) dpkg-source (?) is smart enough to handle that situation. As long as the files are all under one single directory, things will be fine. :-) Of course, some packages are just too awkward to provide pristine source (such as those that comes in multiple .zip files or has no directory structure what-so-ever), we will just have to tailor it for now. :-) Anthony
