Re: Dealing with weird upstream sources

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On 26 Apr 2000, David Z. Maze wrote:

> I could also turn the three sub-tarballs into one big
> not-quite-pristine source tarball, which seems much easier to deal
> with though not quite "correct".  Any hints?

I would do that. Having pristine source is a nice thing to have,
but it is not an absolute requirement if this means a packaging 
nightmare. I think it is enough that you explain in the copyright file 
how did you generate the (repackaged) .orig.tar.gz file.

Thanks.