Package: packaging-manual Version: 3.2.1.0 Severity: normal The packaging manual states that foo-1.2.3.orig.tar.gz must unpack to foo-1.2.3.orig.
However, not only this is not true (dpkg-source apparently deals well with the tarball unpacking to just about anything, as long as it is one-directory-level deep at the very least), but many packages do not follow this, lintian does not check for this... no Debian tool seems to care, and many maintainers don't, either. The packaging-manual description of .orig.tar.gz should be updated to what is the de-facto standard packages and tools have been following: foo-1.2.3.tar.gz should unpack into a directory bar, where bar is preferabily "foo-1.2.3.orig" but can be really just about anything. dpkg-source takes care of renaming the unpack directory to the correct name. (either that, or the foo-1.2.3.orig thing should be enforced by the debian tools). -- System Information Debian Release: woody Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux godzillah.rivendell.sol 2.2.17 #1 Wed Sep 6 17:08:58 BRT 2000 i586 Versions of packages packaging-manual depends on: ii fileutils 4.0.32-1 GNU file management utilities. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
