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Re: Changing the way we deal with source archives

Hi,
>>"Bruce" == Bruce Perens <bruce@pixar.com> writes:

Bruce> I agree. We need to change the policy manual and the defaults
Bruce> of dpkg-source so that original source archives are carried
Bruce> into the distribution un-modified.

Bruce> DOES ANYONE DISAGREE WITH THIS (calling for consensus here).

	I don't disagree, no. I just think we should then also move
 the working directory to package-version.debian, so that unpacking
 the upstream sources would be unlikely to clobber the debian specific
 changes. 

	Is there an objection to this?

	I also want to know what to do with less well behaved upstream
 sources, say like /pub/angband/Sources/win32-fixed.tar.gz which
 unpacks into ./ (If you are changing policy, please retain a loophole
 for these packages, as well as .lha, .zip. and .tar.Z archives).

	manoj

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