* Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> [100309 16:12]:
> > This seems to be confusing. I think common practice is to
> > append to the upstream version, either dfsg (if that's why
> > you have repacked) or other tags depending on the reason. I
> > think this point (4) should be dropped, and the
> > version-tagging expanded.
>
> I just read #470960 and agree with Jon's comment. It is strange to signal that
> a package is repacked by appending ‘.orig’ to the name of its top level
> directory. I am not aware of any of our infrastructures that would rely on
> this
> string to detect repacking,
I do not know anything that it checking this, but you run into this
quite often, as dpkg-dev will generate a .orig.tar.gz if there is none
but there is a .orig directory. (which sadly dh-make will create for
you if you do not specify an orig tarball[1], resulting in far too many
needlessly repackaged .orig.tar.gz in our archive).
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
[1] It got a bit better, but still has that feature available by a
flag and does not warn enough against its usage in my eyes.
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