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Re: source packages and upstream source

To: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>
Subject: Re: source packages and upstream source
From: Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 20:00:19 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: debian-private@lists.debian.org, Bruce Perens <bruce@pixar.com>, Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com>, "Susan G. Kleinmann" <sgk@sgk.tiac.net>
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On 28 Feb 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:

> 	Some name-ver.tar.gz (where they _do_ exists under that name)
>  files unpack into Name/ some into name/ and yet others into
>  name-ver/. There appears to be little consistency in upstream

BUT... since name-ver/ is the GNU standard, and a fair percentage of our
packages are GNU (or at least follow the GNU standards), this is what we
should support.

> 	Given that some upstream sources are badly behaved, I do not
>  think we can do any better than repackage it so our tools can deal
>  with it if we still want automated handling (auto ceate diffs, for
>  example) 

We don't NEED to repackage everything, though - and following the GNU
standard is a good idea (seeing as this is Debian _GNU_/Linux).

A modification to the current way of working things will work fine for at 
least this case, and in other cases, we can just repack.

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References:
- Re: source packages and upstream source
  - From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>

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