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Re: dpkg error message



On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Jens Christian Lisner wrote:

> I want to recompile the ftape package for kernel-2.0.32.
> I've made a 
> 
> dpkg-source -x  ftape_3.04d-1.dsc
> 
> dpkg-source: error: tarfile `./ftape_3.04d.orig.tar.gz' contains object
> (ftape-3.04d/) not in expected directory (ftape-3.04d.orig)
> 
> What does this mean?

It means you're unpacking a "pristine source" source archive with dpkg-dev
1.4.0.8 which can't handle it.  You need to upgrade dpkg-dev

-- 
Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net>                 http://www.gate.net/~storm/


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