Hello, Mats Erik Andersson <mats.anders...@gisladisker.se> wrote: > To my dismay the previous maintainer chose to let the 'orig.tar.gz'-file > contain the packaged and compressed upstream tar archive. My personal > taste is to abondon this practice, if for no other reason to simplify > the rules-file. I know one reason: inside the upstream package are binary files, which must be created new while packaging ("build") and then the original binary files of upstream get lost ... This seems to be independent of the package format.
For me the solution would be: creating a reduced orig.tar.gz file without those binaries. Would be this the right way? Fondest regards, Joachim Wiedorn
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