On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 01:53:19PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > I intend to package a project called "argtable", mostly because I want > to use it in my own package, rsyncrypto, in order to make it less Linux > specific. There are two issues that come to mind: > 1. The source directory naming of upstream is "argtable2", instead of > the expected "argtable-2.4". > 2. The author seems to keep the "1" series version around, since version > 2 introduced some incompatibilities. > > I intend to ignore the second problem, so that if it ever comes up we > can call the other argtable "argtable1". What should I do about the > first problem, though? Should I repackage the original source (and > remove on of the examples compiled for FreeBSD left behind in it, while > at it). Should I use the original source package as is? Should I contact > upstream and ask him to change the way he names the directories?
No need to repackage, dpkg-source handles this situation fine. If there's only one directory in a tarball, dpkg-source will rename that one to package-version, if there are more than one entries, they'll all get unpackaged in package-version. The only reasons to repack would be to: - drop undistributeable/non-free stuff out - because your source package is a collection of tarballs or other documents not available in .tar.gz (such as a languages package, or documentation obtained with wget -r, or by means of $VERSIONCONTROL checkout) - the upstream tarball is *really* braindead, for example, contains a debian dir with tons of files that hurt your packaging badly or make it impossible, or it contains things like sockets or device nodes. In as far as I can see every other case, it's prefereable to have a pristine original source, making it much easier to verify that the .orig.tar.gz is genuinly upstream's. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
