Re: how do I create orig.tar.gz archive ?

[Peter Makholm <peter@makholm.net>]

"Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@efis.ucr.ac.cr> writes:

> Peter is correct.  Just a small note: it is VERY important that the
> .orig.tar.gz IS the original tar.gz (the name doesn't matter); if it can't
> be done[1], then it can't, but if you can use pristine source, please do use

Anything special to do if it is impossible to use pristine sources?

I have a packages where the source is distributed i zipfiles with only
one-case 8.3 filenames (yuck). Everything in the sources uses
filenames which differs in case. what shall I do?

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