Re: dpkg-source

[joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen)]

> 3 files in dir to install sources: *.diff.gz, *.orig.tar.gz and *.dsc
> 
> dpkg-source -x fails  with:
> 
>   "diff patches file whose dir does not appear in tarfile"
> 
> I could comment some lines in *.dsc for the dir specified in the 
> error message, but I don't
> understand the formats. How does it work ? So I wanted to install the
> man pages for "diff" which gives the same kind of error ! What do to ?
> 

The best fix is probably to install dpkg from unstable. But then you'd
also have to install libc6 (from unstable).

The problem you see is a problem found in the old dpkg (or was
it dpkg-dev) packages.


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