On Saturday 09 November 2002 19:08, Marc Nozell wrote: > I'm starting to package up a tool and have some questions about > 'pristine source'. > > * The upstream author only distributes as a ZIP file. Since > dpkg-buildpackage, dh_make, etc only understand .tar.gz files, > is it acceptable for me to grab the .zip, unpackage it, create > a tar.gz and then start the packaging process? I'm not touching > the contents of the archive, just the archive format. > > * The upstream author also names his releases as packagename-0+5i, > the previous being packagename-0+4i. Along the same lines as > above, is it acceptable to rename the file to packagename-0.5i? > > Thanks! > > -marc
sometimes we have to add a little sanity to an otherwise crazy world. (-: The guidelines cover the most common issues, but there are always exceptions.
