On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 04:58:53AM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: > Note that even if he adds a .diff.gz, there is nothing that requires > the .orig.tar.gz to be bit-for-bit identical to something upstream > gives out. There are some cases that require you to remove something > from upstream sources. Some times the upstream distributes multiple > tarfiles and you need to either combine them or use dbs.
...or there is non-free code in the upstream tarball, or the tarball unpacks to a poorly-named subdirectory, or doesn't unpack to a subdirectory at all, etc. So-called "pristine source" is a noble goal, but shouldn't be mandatory. -- G. Branden Robinson | Exercise your freedom of religion. Debian GNU/Linux | Set fire to a church of your [EMAIL PROTECTED] | choice. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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