On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:09:40AM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Does the md5 sum of the .orig.tar.gz have to be the same as the one of > the upstream tarball ? > > Some people ofter unpack the upstream tarball and rename the directory > so that the latter comply with the Debian Policy. However, this makes > the md5sum change. But, in a lot of cases, there are no need for changing > the internals of the upstream source. > > One solution that some gave me is to copy the upstream tarball to > the orig.tar.gz and the building process does all the renaming itself. > > Could some of you give their point of view ?
The md5 does not _have_ to be the same. You can repack the original source archive if you must, but it usually isn't necessary. There is no need to rename the directory; the dpkg-source and dpkg-buildpackage tools can handle non-standard names now (in the past they did not). So, just rename the original to .orig.tar.gz and use it, in most cases. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
