On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 08:37:54PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > If I were you I would have tried "fakeroot debian/rules > get-orig-source", which is the policy mandated target to retrieve > orig.tar.gz. I haven't tried, but looking at madwifi's debian/rules it > is indeed implemented and retrieve the .orig.tar.gz. > mine maintained on svn work that way. This was a really usefull bit of information, thanks. Thou get-orig-source of madwifi pulls the source to ../tarballs so some manual work is still required. > If you are rather looking for a complete source tree as it will appear > in the archive then your only change is "apt-get source". And this again > does not surprise me, since such a source tree in the general case does > not exist for packages being worked on and not yet uploaded. It would be really nice if debcheckout would work like apt-get source. Maybe debcheckout could run get-orig-source if only debian/ directory appears under the checkout, or if the upstream version in debian/changelog is equal to the one available in apt sources, pull the orig.tar.gz there. -- "rm -rf" only sounds scary if you don't have backups
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