Re: Policy about use of upstream source as .orig.tar.gz

1997-12-29 Thread Will Lowe
On 28 Dec 1997, Guy Maor wrote: > Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 2) rename the tar.gz > > > > mv package.version.tar.gz package-version.tar.gz > Should be ^^^ package-version.orig.tar.gz. Upes, Righto. Thanks.

Re: Policy about use of upstream source as .orig.tar.gz

1997-12-29 Thread Guy Maor
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) Unzip the source and move it into the right directory: > > tar -xvzf package.version.tar.gz > mv package.version/ whatever-version > > 2) rename the tar.gz > > mv package.version.tar.gz package-version.tar.gz Should be

Re: Policy about use of upstream source as .orig.tar.gz

1997-12-29 Thread Will Lowe
On 28 Dec 1997, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > I couldn't find the proper place in the policy manual that talks about > how to do it correctly, however. If someone could clue me in as to how > to do it right.. 1) Unzip the source and move it into the right directory: tar -xvzf package.version.t

Re: Policy about use of upstream source as .orig.tar.gz

1997-12-29 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Gregor" == Gregor Hoffleit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gregor> Lately, I've run into a few packages that had an Gregor> .orig.tar.gz source archive (gimp was among them, I think) Gregor> that was different from the upstream source distribution, Gregor> although there were no

Policy about use of upstream source as .orig.tar.gz

1997-12-29 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
Lately, I've run into a few packages that had an .orig.tar.gz source archive (gimp was among them, I think) that was different from the upstream source distribution, although there were no changes to the sources. Probbaly these archives were built by dpkg-source in cases were it couldn't f