Git packaging for orig.tar.gz style packages

[Kumar Appaiah]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 02:00:58PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> I wonder if it would not be better to use import-tars.perl from 
> contrib/fast-import to import the tar...

Possible, but I am yet to try it. Martin has suggested git_load_dirs
(git-load-dirs package) which seems to handle this issue quite well,
and hits the bull's eye with regard to my query.

My next question was to be about building the orig.tar.gz, but
Martin's post on this clarified matters:
http://blog.madduck.net/debian/2007.10.01_pristine-tarballs-and-vcs

So, according to Martin, there really is no sanctity about providing
the upstream provided relase tarball as .orig.tar.gz, as long as both
provide identical content. Of course, I don't think that would still
prevent me from keeping the upstream tarball inthe parent directory
anyway during the build, to retain the satisfaction of using the
upstream tarball as the .orig.tar.gz.

Thanks!

Kumar
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