removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within source tarballs...

Author: joy
Date: 2003/11/02 14:27:10
removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within source tarballs, closes: #79210

git-archimport-id: srivasta@debian.org--etch/debian-policy--devel--3.0--patch-264

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index f57cf1cd55296e55e174451edbf054ccdf41bad8..0f7d343df912e93554f26b23d213cd3e0eb2ea42 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -9449,15 +9449,11 @@ install-info --quiet --remove /usr/share/info/foobar.info
            </tag>
 
            <item>
-
              <p>
                This is a compressed (with <tt>gzip -9</tt>)
                <prgn>tar</prgn> file containing the source code from
-               the upstream authors of the program.  The tarfile
-               unpacks into a directory
-               <file><var>package</var>-<var>upstream-version</var>.orig</file>,
-               and does not contain files anywhere other than in
-               there or in its subdirectories.</p>
+               the upstream authors of the program.
+             </p>
            </item>
 
            <tag>
@@ -9491,7 +9487,7 @@ install-info --quiet --remove /usr/share/info/foobar.info
                automatically make the <file>debian/rules</file> file
                executable (see below).</p></item>
          </taglist>
-
+       </p>
 
        <p>
          If there is no original source code - for example, if the
@@ -9499,8 +9495,8 @@ install-info --quiet --remove /usr/share/info/foobar.info
          maintainer is the same as the upstream maintainer - the
          format is slightly different: then there is no diff, and the
          tarfile is named
-         <file><var>package</var>_<var>version</var>.tar.gz</file> and
-         contains a directory
+         <file><var>package</var>_<var>version</var>.tar.gz</file>,
+         and preferably contains a directory named
          <file><var>package</var>-<var>version</var></file>.
        </p>
       </sect>