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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