On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 01:40:34PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > There are currently 2 problems with the way the .orig.tar.gz file is
> > extracted during dpkg-source -b:
> > - When a package-ver.orig directory pre-exists, it gets removed.
> 
> With format 1.0, there are many -s* options precisely to control this
> (you may want to try -ss or -sk). Those options do not exist anymore with
> newer formats however. Newer formats also don't wipe out the .orig dir,
> they create temporary directories near the source tree.

The problem is that the .orig directory may not be corresponding to the
tarball, and i see no option in dpkg-source that prevents bad things
from happening.



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