Re: What to do if there's already a debian-dir inside the .orig.tar?

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Subject: Re: What to do if there's already a debian-dir inside the .orig.tar?
From: Vincent Cheng <vincentc1208@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 14:39:08 -0800
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On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@wrar.name> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 03:15:35AM -0800, Vincent Cheng wrote:
>> You can simply ignore it; there's no need to repack the tarball just
>> to remove the debian dir. dpkg-buildpackage (or your favourite
>> wrapper) will remove the debian dir inside the original tarball and
>> use yours at build time.
> This is true only for 3.0 (quilt) format.
>
> --
> WBR, wRAR
>

I guess I've learned something new today; thanks!

Vincent

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References:
- What to do if there's already a debian-dir inside the .orig.tar?
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- Re: What to do if there's already a debian-dir inside the .orig.tar?
  - From: Vincent Cheng <vincentc1208@gmail.com>
- Re: What to do if there's already a debian-dir inside the .orig.tar?
  - From: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@wrar.name>

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