Re: Is there any opposition to a debian/ top-level subdir?

[Aaron Lehmann]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 08:04:21PM -0600, Sam TH wrote:
> One more quick question, aaron.  What Paul seems to be suggesting is
> that before you create the orig.tar.gz, you run some make command.
> Then the autobuilders @ debian would be just fine, and it would only
> be a hassle for the person uploading the source package.  
> 
> Am I missing something here?


No, but possibly I was.

It's an interesting proposition. Ideally, the .orig.tar.gz is supposed
to be the pristine upstream source, but in this case we are spread
across tarballs so we need to make custom ones anyway.