Some issues with terraform-src-0.9.5.tgz

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I am the packager of terraform for the Fink packaging system (a Mac OS X 
project, see 
<finkproject.org/> and also 
<http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/terraform>).

Since terraform was recently updated to 0.9.5, I decided to upgrade the Fink 
package 
accordingly. This went mostly fine, but I run into some issues, which I believe 
will also affect 
other distributions.

Foremost, terraform-src-0.9.5.tgz is missing the file "depcomp". I work around 
this by patching 
a copy of this file in (other fixes would include running automake, etc. but 
this one is easiest for 
me for various reasons). It would be good if the next release would include 
this again.

Some other minor things are also "annoying", but harmless: It seems that the 
"standard" for 
naming source tar balls these days is
   NAME-VERSION.tar.gz
so normally I would have expected 
  terraform-0.9.5.tar.gz
which is what 95% of open source software out there uses. But then again, it's 
not a fixed rule, 
and if you prefer the other, so be it.

Another minor issue is that the directory contained in this tarball is named 
"terraform", which 
conventionally, the name matches the tarball name, so I would have expected
  terraform-src-0.9.5
Fink assumes this name by default, but luckily it is possible to override this 
default aassumption. 
If the tarball was named according to the usual scheme, of course the dir 
should be named
  terraform-0.9.5
instead.

Thanks for resuming work on terraform!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 26 Jan 2010 at 9:47