Upstream to orig.tar.gz

[Wolfgang Baer]

Hi all,

there is one area left with java packaging where I am not 100% sure if
it is correct what I do. Sorry if thats the wrong list, but as I
realized not correct tar.gz upstream source packages are normally for
java projects.

I already realized that java upstream has several different upstream
packages - zip files, jar file, with/without version, with/without
top-level directory and with capital letters.

The "automatic" way for building the orig.tar.gz with dh_make works
only for tar.gz upstream sources with lower case letters and a
version number which starts with digits.

In the above cases I extracted the source tree - renamed/created the
top-level directory with packagename-version and build the orig.tar.gz
myself.

Please comment if I am totally wrong :-)

Now I have a package with the following upstream name:

JRclient-RE817.tar.gz

What to do with it ? In the debian-policy is said the
upstream version _should_ start with a digit. Is it therefore
OK to just use lower case letters and repackage to jrclient-re817
as top-level directory and rclient_re817.orig.tar.gz ?


Thanks a lot,

Wolfgang