On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 01:50:15PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > Trying to understand this directory structure (do I have this > correct?): > > xyz-0.0/ [1] > xyz-0.0/debian/ [2] could be symlink to source/debian [4] > xyz-0.0/source/ [3] pristine source
Yep. > tar -C xyz-0.0 -cvzf debian.tar.gz debian [5] > > xyz-0.0/debian.tar.gz [6] > xyz-0.0/xyz_0.0-1.deb > xyz-0.0/xyz_0.0-1.diff.gz > xyz-0.0/xyz_0.0-1_i386.changes > xyz-0.0/xyz_0.0-1_i386.dsc > xyz-0.0/xyz_0.0.orig.tar.gz > > You say that this isn't meant to change the source code format, but > [2], [4] and [5] seem to be saying otherwise. Well, there's a change to the source code format because the content is different, but changing the format isn't the point of my proposal. [I tacked on the debian.tar.gz thing at the last moment, because diff doesn't know how to deal with symlinks -- and it's much easier to browse diffs if they're not doubling as a transport for extra missing files. I should have gone back and cleaned up my "this isn't about source format" intro. Sorry.] Focusing on the source code format for a moment, I think we'd want something that keeps files from losing their identity when they're downloaded. Perhaps: > xyz-0.0/xyz_0.0-1.debian.tar.gz > xyz-0.0/xyz_0.0-1.deb > xyz-0.0/xyz_0.0-1.diff.gz > xyz-0.0/xyz_0.0-1_i386.changes > xyz-0.0/xyz_0.0-1_i386.dsc > xyz-0.0/xyz_0.0.orig.tar.gz But, I'd like to spend a lot more attention to stuff like building packages, and maintaining them, and leave source package format stuff till after we've nailed down the rest of it. Thanks, -- Raul
