On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 08:54:50PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 04:50:27PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi mentors > > > > When we have a program xyz.tgz and when uncompressing it, it extracts > > everything to the current directory and not to xyz/ we have to create a > > dir xyz-version/, move all the extracted files to xyz-version/ and > > repack this directory, right? > > No, dpkg-source copes with this situation fine, if it extracts in > toplevel, or has a wrongly-named single directory, it'll make sure it > gets in package-version/ directory anyway. > > Repacking should normally only be done if it contains undistributeable > stuff, or non-free stuff in case of a main or contrib package. In which case you should follow the naming practice as in the Developers Reference.
Note that dh_make may require that the directory be renamed, but that's a one-time thing; after that, dpkg-source will cope. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
