Hi Andreas, On Tuesday 29 April 2008 13:27, Andreas Tille wrote: > That's strange. A "make dist" does NOT create a *.dsc file. Ah. Closing the bug then :) > > When trying to unpack that with "dpkg-source -x" I got the following > > error: > You get only a tarbal that has to be extracted via "tar -xzf". > Could you please be a little bit more verbose what you _really_ did? I ran "debuild" before, as I thought that was the proper way to build the package ;-) > The procedure is > > 1. make dist > 2. move the resulting tarball to some _other_ directory > 3. tar -xzf <tarball> > 4. cd <directory> > 5. debuild > > If you follow this procedure everything should went fine. I'll update the README accordingly. Actually my action was triggered by the mail to d-d-a recommending to provide a README.source in case "dpkg-source -x $package_$vsersion.dsc ; cd $package-$vsersion" is not the proper way to get the source package... (And thus I plan to move README to debian/README.source.) Thanks, Holger
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