On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:24:16AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:54:28AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 11:46:51PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > > okay. and i still believe that it even makes sense to have .orig > > > stored in the .orig.tar.gz file. > > > > No. Pristine source helps users trying to see if you're distributing the > > same thing upstream is. > > Well, very often upstream distributes package foo as dir foo only, not > as foo-1.2.3, so you have to repackage it anyway, or am i missing > something ?
dpkg-source has supported this since 1997. You don't need to repack such tarballs. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
