Source file package does not unpack cleanly

[dazjorz]

I noticed that the source file package does not unpack cleanly. About 90% of the source packages unpack to a directory equal to their filename excluding '.tar.*', and 9% unpack to a directory equal to the product name. For example, if you download a 'randomprogram-0.05.tar.gz', it will most probably unpack to 'randomprogram-0.05/'.

However, I noticed this is not the case with Transmission's source package.

dazjorz@laptop:~/src/transmission$ tar -xzf transmission-0.82.tar.gz
dazjorz@laptop:~/src/transmission$ ls
acinclude.m4  BSDmakefile   daemon           macosx       NEWS                      version.sh
appcast.xml   ChangeLog     gtk              Makefile     README                    wx
AUTHORS       cli           libevent         Makefile.am  transmission-0.82.tar.gz
autogen.sh    configure     libtransmission  misc         transmission.spec.in
beos          configure.ac  LICENSE          mk           Transmission.xcodeproj

Since this is not the way it should unpack, I am quite certain this should change. To create the archive, do not use

src/transmission-0.82$ tar -czf transmission-0.82.tar.gz *

but instead, use

src$ tar -czf transmission-0.82.tar.gz transmission0.82

This is what most users will expect.

[Gimp]

This is technically already fixed, however will not be implimented until the next release, so that packagers do not get mad that its been changed.

[livings124]

This will be fixed in the next release, and there is nothing to commit.

[mezz]

I had to create the tarballs on my own since 0.72 to 0.82 for FreeBSD ports for that reason. :-)