On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:05:10AM -0400, Fran?ois-Denis Gonthier wrote: > On 28 September 2005 14:07, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > When I make a new upstream package for Erlang, I need to extract the upstream > tar.gz file, which is named otp_src_[version].tar.gz, rename the created > directory to a Debian friendly name and then make the .orig.tar.gz. > > Does that count as repackaging? If so I'm clueless as to what I should do to > avoid that. Yes. If the .orig.tar.gz is not identical to the upstream source-ball available from the location indicated in the copyright (guaranteed by policy 12.5), then it is considered repackaging.
dpkg-source is intelligent, and can deal with many strange upstream tarballs. It doesn't care if the tarball extracts to the wrong directory name, or extracts to ./, or pretty much anything else. You might have to rename the upstream directory for the initial invocation of dh_make, but that it entirely independent from everything else. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
