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Re: What to do if the original tarball contains a debian subdirectory



On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 16:17 +0100, Luca Niccoli wrote:
> I found a very nice little program to take pictures from a webcam, and
> I would like to package it.
> The original tarball already contains a debian subdirectory (which
> needs some corrections anyway), how should I deal with that?
> If I dh_make straight after unpacking the tarball, dh_make won't
> modify the debian subdirectory; but I wonder if removing it beforehand
> will tamper the orig.tar.gz
> The program is fswebcam, I already uploaded it on mentors.debian.net
> (just modifing the files in debian/if you want to take a look at it.
> The upstream site is http://www.firestorm.cx/fswebcam/

Sounds as if you have to repack the upstream tarball. IANADD though.

-- Stephan

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