On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 01:53:55PM +0800, pabs wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if there is any info about best practice in the > situation where upstream source packaging doesn't use the standard > foo-0.1.2/ inside of foo-0.1.2.tar.gz scheme? > > I suppose repacking the tarball/etc before using dh_make is enough, but > is there a standard way to make this a bit more automated for new > upstream releases? > > Another, question: why do some orig.tar.gz files contain a tarball that > looks to be the upstream source, instead of being a copy of the upstream > source? gaim for example. Provide debian/rules:get_orig_source which downloads the upstream tarball, as recommended [0].
The debian tools (dpkg-source, I guess) can deal with almost all upstream tarballs. Even if they extract to the current directory, or if they extract to a directory not called name-version. If you have to repackage it, (FE for DFSG compliance), then you should create the tarball name_version.orig.tar.gz which extracts to the directory name-version.orig/ (such as to implicitly identify it as a nonpristine tarball). get_orig_source should do this, too. Justin References [0] http://www.nl.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-origtargz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
