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Re: source packages and upstream source

Hi,
>>"Mark" == Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com> writes:

>> I see. But sometime the upstrem sources are not in
>> name-version.tar,gz format. And they don't unpack in predictable

Mark> So what?  *sometimes they are*.  When they are we can do the
Mark> right thing; when they're not, we can repack them.  Note that
Mark> upstream sources are *NEVER* in the format
Mark> "name-version.orig.tar.gz"... because that would be silly and
Mark> redundant from the upstream perspective.

      ``So what?''?! Well, so, this means do not require that we
  *always* have the upstream file untouched in our uploads. 

       Maybe we should change dpkg-source, and debmake, and friends to
 use package-name-version.debian and package-name-version.tar.gz.
 That way, some of the ``well behaved'' upstream files will not be
 touched, while we repackage those that do not unpack nicely.

      manoj

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