{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/grke/burp/issues/268","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/grke/burp/issues/268/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/grke/burp/issues/268/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/grke/burp/issues/268/events","html_url":"https://github.com/grke/burp/issues/268","id":59809729,"number":268,"title":"Directory in source archive should contain version number","user":{"login":"larsen0815","id":2345512,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2345512?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/larsen0815","html_url":"https://github.com/larsen0815","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/larsen0815/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/larsen0815/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/larsen0815/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/larsen0815/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/larsen0815/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/larsen0815/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/larsen0815/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/larsen0815/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/larsen0815/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2015-03-04T15:04:51Z","updated_at":"2015-03-05T11:07:58Z","closed_at":"2015-03-05T11:07:58Z","body":"At the moment, the archive \"burp-2.0.14.tar.bz2\" extracts to a directory \"burp\".\r\n\r\nMost open-source projects I know provide a source file that contains a directory with the version number in it´s name (e.g. ProFTPd, Apache httpd) instead of just the name.\r\n\r\nThis has the benefit of being able to extract multiple versions into the same parent directory (useful if you want to test different versions at the same time). Also, checkinstall doesn´t like it when you run it from within a directory that has no version number in it´s name.\r\n\r\nOf course, it is possible to manually rename the extracted directory afterwards but if it doesn´t break anything else, this could be made more user-friendly.\r\n"}}