Re: Recompiling a package

[Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:42:40PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:

> I was searching for a package and I've found it. But it?s compiled for 
> Debian stable. I use Debian unstable and I would like to compile it for 
> my version of Debian.
> How can I recompile it? I have those files:
> program.diff.gz
> program.dsc
> program.changes
> program.deb
> program.orig.tar.gz

> Unpacking the .orig.tar.gz only creates the directory of the program, 
> but without the debian/ directory. What do I have to do?

  Unzip the 'program.diff.gz' file, and apply it with patch.  This will
 create the debian/ directory.

  If you've got this from a stable archive I'm suprised it's not in
 the unstable one - unless it was removed.

  (Perhaps if you got it from stable you could 'apt-get source program'
 which would download and unpack everything for you instead?)

Steve
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