On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:46:01AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: >On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 06:35:52PM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote: >> Personally I prefer to rename the upstream tarball to .orig.tar.gz so it >> is byte-for-byte identical (although this is technically violating >> current policy which requires it to unpack into a .orig directory). > >I don't see anywhere in policy which requires this.
Well, perhaps not in policy proper but in the appendices to policy from the Packaging Manual--"C.3. Source packages as archives": "The tarfile unpacks into a directory `<package>-<upstream-version>.orig', and does not contain files anywhere other than in there or in its subdirectories." --bod
