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Re: How to convince debuild to produce the .diff.gz?



On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 02:30:43PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
> I have packaged TkMan and the deb seems to work. However I am not getting a 
> .diff.gz file. Instead, I am told by dpkg-buildpackage that it is a 
> Debian-specific package. Which is not, of course.
> 
> I have unpacked the src, created a debian dir, have the right files (as far as 
> I Know) in it and run debuild. What am I doing wrong?

Is your version number of the form <upstream version>-<debian revision>, 
for example 3.1-4?  Without the hyphen, it will be treated as a Debian
native package.

   Julian

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