Josip Rodin wrote: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > >> Pristine sources are already a desired, but not required, > > >> characteristic. There are enough brain dead upstream packaging > > >> practices that we can not mandate pristine sources. > > > > > Dont go blaming "upstream" for debians problems, lots of other > > > distro's ship pristine sources, thats a poor excuse. > > > > Poor excuse? Your ignorance is showing. Firstly, there have > > been upstream sources that have been packaged as zip files, as rar > > files, and other formats (I seem to recall something distributed as > > an unarj repository, or something) > > I should mention that the original version of p2c was a tar.Z. > I don't even recall if I have an uncompress on the machine. :)
Please note that you can rename a tar.Z into a tar.gz and dpkg-source would probably not complain, since gunzip is able to uncompress a compressed .Z file. What gzip can't do is to generate a .Z file which the old uncompress program can uncompress.
