joost witteveen: > Didn't you already file a bug against dpkg/patch for this, noticing that > it it was patch-2.2 that caused this?
I filed the bug after this message. Yes, that's what it appears to be. > Anyway, to help you with something else (see debian-bugs), I also > tried to unpack xkobo, and only succeded after downgrading my patch-2.2 > (unstable) to patch-2.1 (from bo). Probably the real bug is in dpkg, though. It is. Patch has changed some syntax.. You can fix it in dpkg-dev with this little patch: --- dpkg-source.orig Thu May 22 12:20:35 1997 +++ dpkg-source Thu May 22 12:20:14 1997 @@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ open(STDIN,"<&GZIP") || &syserr("reopen gzip for patch"); chdir($newdirectory) || &syserr("chdir to $newdirectory for patch"); exec('patch','-s','-t','-F','0','-N','-p1','-u', - '-V','never','-b','.dpkg-orig'); + '-V','never','-z','.dpkg-orig'); &syserr("exec patch"); } close(GZIP); -- See shy Jo. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .