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Re: source packages and upstream source

From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>
> Do we not want our archives to contain the full, original,
> sources?
> Or is this way off mark? (no pun intended)
> What am I missing?

You're missing the fact that the orig.tar.gz file we upload is not the
same as the .tar.gz file we downloaded. It should be the same, but it
is not.

If you'll take a look at what dpkg-deb is doing if you invoke it
without any special flags, it is creating a
package-$VERSION.orig.tar.gz . In this archive, all the files are of
the form package-$VERSION.orig/filename . It's then adding that
newly-created archive to the .dsc file and that's the one that gets
uploaded, not the one you downloaded. In other words, the suffix ".orig"
is added within all pathnames in the archive, and there is no other change
to the archive.

Does this sound like a gratituitous change in the original source to
you? It does to me. Especially since dpkg-source is fully capable of
doing it the way I'd expect it to work, only you have to add a flag
to the command line for it to do so.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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