rename a tarball?

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Mittwoch, den 14.04.2010, 16:34 -0430 schrieb Efrain Valles:
> Dear all,
> 
> There is a piece of software I am interested in packaging. I am
> currently reading all docs in the wiki, however I am a bit stuck with
> the naming of the package.
> 
> I have downloaded the tarball from http://github.com/satanas/Turpial/downloads
> 
> The original tarball name is satanas-Turpial-1fe9fa5.tar.gz, I have
> been suggested that since the name does no increase in number like svn
> that name may not be sensible. I have chaged the name to
> turpial_1.0_b3.orig.tar.gz however once I extract the contents the
> resulting folder is
> 
> satanas-Turpial-1fe9fa5
> 
> If my memory does not fail me, I have to repackage the tarball. any
> suggestions or doc I can read about this?

No, you don't have to rename the tarball. The name of this directory is
irrelevant. The packaging tool do not rely on the name of this
directory.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org)
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