I'm trying to update the Fedora distribution package for patchelf. If I untar the .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 in the download area, the source has a strangely named subdirectory.
$ tar tf patchelf-0.14.1.tar.gz
patchelf-0.14.1.19700101.dirty/
patchelf-0.14.1.19700101.dirty/aclocal.m4
patchelf-0.14.1.19700101.dirty/configure
patchelf-0.14.1.19700101.dirty/build-aux/
...
Is this intended? It makes it difficult to make a package.