"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 06:51:11PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > > tmancill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Put another way: "Am I going to mess up any of the automated > > > scripts processing the archive if I make changes to the > > > .orig.tar.gz without giving it a new name?" > > > > No. > > James is right, *but* don't call it .orig.tar.gz then, because it's > not pristine source. In such a case, theere's not .diff.gz then...
Eh? The use of .orig.tar.gz pre-dates the use of pristine source significantly. Often there is no way to make certain alterations to the upstream source other than to alter the .orig.tar.gz (i.e. if you want to mass-remove or add a bunch of binaries, alter symlinks, etc.). Making changes to the .orig.tar.gz does make it non-pristine but that *doesn't* mean you should go to no .diff.gz and .tar.gz; the latter is for Debian-originated source packages (e.g. pdmenu, sysvinit, dpkg etc.). non-pristine != Debian-originated -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ http://yawn.nocrew.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
