On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 07:31:28PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> The packaging-manual description of .orig.tar.gz should be updated to what
> is the de-facto standard packages and tools have been following:
> foo-1.2.3.tar.gz should unpack into a directory bar, where bar is
> preferabily "foo-1.2.3.orig" but can be really just about anything.
> dpkg-source takes care of renaming the unpack directory to the correct name.
Doesn't even need to unpack into a single directory.
Julian
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