Hi, On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > I've noted the following things when studying the man page of > dpkg-source > * In the section "Building" of the description of 3.0 (quilt) it > is stated: > "The updated debian directory and the list of modified > binaries is then used to regenerate the debian tarball." > Why is it "regenerate" instead of "generate" here? I believe, it > is not uncommon, that no debian tarball exists before.
Right. > * In the same section there is a note: > "Note: dpkg-source expects the source tree to have all patches > applied when you generate the source package. This is not the > case when the source tree has been obtained by unpacking a > source package using the Format: 1.0 for instance." > However, from my understanding unpacking format 1.0 packages > does lead to a tree with the main ".diff" applied, and > thus a fully patched source unless a patch system is used. I'm referring to "quilt patches" aka patches listed debian/patches/series here. I fixed this in the git repo: http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=77e9ff0a2dd78d36772dcc88aeb337d862b45490 Thanks for the feedback! -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
