Michael Rasmussen wrote: > The tarball was named foo-0.7.2.tgz which I have renamed to > foo-0.7.2.tar.gz (actually tar.bz2 since I prefer bzip2)
Then what's exactly the problem? Why not rename it to "foo_0.7.2.orig.tar.bz2" and be done with it? Note that if upstream uses gzip, it would be nice sticking to it, since the repacking isn't necessary. Slightly OT, you could take a look at the comparisons John Goerzen made about compression mechanisms[0][1]. They might swing your preference for bzip2. > The source package does not postfix the source folder with version > number which will cause lintian to complain. > > Orig: > foo\ > subdir1 > subdir2 > > My suggestion: > foo-x.y.z\ > subdir1 > subdir2 As Mark Brown said, AFAICT this really doesn't make any practical difference. If there is a problem with it, then I've unknowingly been making this mistake for years... :) Cheers [0]http://changelog.complete.org/archives/910-how-to-think-about-compression [1]http://changelog.complete.org/archives/931-how-to-think-about-compression-part-2 -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
