On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 08:23:06PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote: > On Friday 31 Oct 2003 19:51, Frank Küster wrote: > > Amit Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > The orig.tar.gz contains the directory renamed to > > > libfilesys-smbclient-1.4/. The original one had Filesys-SmbClient-1.4 > > > as the directory. Should I replace the .orig.tar.gz? (There are no > > > other differences. The files are unchanged.)
> > No, your orig.tar.gz is o.k. AFAIK. But you should explain what you did > > in README.Debian. > I just checked some packages. Some of them just the name of the tarball > changed, some of them have the directory changed too. > > Example: > Just the name changed: > libdbd-mysql-perl > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/perl/libdbd-mysql-perl.html > > The directory renamed: > libnet-perl: > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/perl/libnet-perl.html > linneighborhood: > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/linneighborhood.html > > Seems there aren't any rules which say what to follow. I checked the policy > manual and the developers' ref. manual, couldn't find anything which states > what's the convention. In ancient times dpkg-source required that the tarfile contained foo-<version>.orig, but this happened a long time ago (pre-slink?). Today it is not necessary just repack just get foo-<version>.orig/ and should not be done. - Having pristine upstream sources is a really nice thing to have, you can check MD5sums and pgp-signatures. cu andreas
