Re: How a packaging system works

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Subject: Re: How a packaging system works
From: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 28 Jul 1998 18:29:04 -0500
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In-reply-to: Marcus Brinkmann's message of "Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:13:28 +0200"
References: <[🔎] m3n29umtaj.fsf@zen.binary.net.au> <[🔎] 87r9z6msfz.fsf@tiamat.datasync.com> <[🔎] m3pveqlbxp.fsf@zen.binary.net.au> <[🔎] 19980728131328.D399@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>

Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> Well, sometimes the tar package does not unpack in a single directory, or
> there is no upstream tar ball at all, or you need two tar balls. In this
> cases, we repack the tar ball in our way. This is unavoidable.
> 
> However, those exceptions are rare, and mostly we are able to use pristine
> sources.

And with a fix to dpkg we could even handle packages that unpack into
the current directory.  I thought that someone was working on this,
but I haven't heard anything about it in a while.

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