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Re: Experiences with compiling Debian



> >         gnats: diff patches file
> >         (gnats-3.101.orig/gnats/contrib/tkgnats/print/Description_Summary)
> >         whose directory does not appear in tarfile
> 
> Hmmm...  I'm not sure what to do about this.  The version of tkgnats
> I built is significantly different from what was in the original
> archive.  If 'patch' isn't smart enough to create a directory that
> didn't exist originally, what can I do about it?

Patch is smart enough, it's just that dpkg isn't smart enough to
tell patch to be smart enough. (Maybe this changed in dpkg-1.4.0.18
though).

-- 
joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
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