On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 01:32:06PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > I have just prepared a new release of a package I am maintaining when I > noticed I had forgotten to rename the upstream directroy in the tarball. > Upstream calls the source directory "clisp". In the last release, > clisp_2.28.orig.tar.gz, the source directory was called "clisp-2.28". I > missed this somehow, so clisp_2.29.orig.tar.gz has the source directory > called "clisp". The package still builds, but I wonder whether this is > correct?
dpkg-source sorts this out, so don't worry about it. It's better to use the pristine source tarball provided by upstream where possible and not needlessly repack it, since this has nice properties like allowing people to compare md5sums easily. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
