On 12-Jun-99, 00:35 (CDT), Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I like to consider the source code (.c files, etc) and it's transfer > > encoding (.tar.gz) to be seperate. if you repack it, or recompress it, all > > you are doing is changing the way it is delivered not what is being > > delivered which is really what we want to preserve. > > This is a bizarre interpretation. Pristine upstream source is and > always has been one thing and one thing only: > > * the exact same (compressed) tarball as distributed by the upstream > source of the package, as mentioned in the location as found in > /usr/doc/<pkg>/copyright
This is a bizarre interpretation. If it unpacks to the same code (such that "diff -r" produces no output), it's effectively the same source. Who cares about the packaging? (Yes, I understand that it screws up md5sums/whatevers on the archive. So what? The files should be md5summed, not the archive.) Steve "I'm just being contrary" Greenland
