Re: Distribution making

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>Karel Zak writes:
>
>> > 3. `make dist' depends on distdir, tars up the prepared tree, and leaves
> a
>> > file postgresql-$(VERSION).tar.gz, which you can give to your friends.
>>
>> And what ".orig.tar.gz"? We Debian's user love it :-) (and IMHO it is
>> really not bad idea.)
>
>What's that?

A Debian source package consists of the upstream source (named
package.orig.tar.gz) together with a diff file and a control file. These
should be all that are needed to rebuild the binary package from the source.

Some upstream developers make it hard for us, though. :-(

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