Re: How to convince debuild to produce the .diff.gz?

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

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On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 09:37:08AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > Do you have ../package_upstreamversion.orig.tar.gz ?
> 
> debuild does not create it. It is creating
../package_upstreamversion-debversion.tar.gz.
> To be more specific, I start with tkman.tar.gz, untar it into the
> tkman-2.1 dir, create tkman-2.1/debian, have it contains the debian
> files, modify tkman-2.1/Makefile and run debuild.

You need to create a tkman_2.1.orig.tar.gz yourself in the parent
directory of the build directory.  This can (and usually should) just
be a renamed version of the original tkman .tar.gz file.

So you have /.../tkman/tkman-2.1.orig.tar.gz and
/.../tkman/tkman-2.1/... as your build tree.  Then debuild in the
build tree will generate /.../tkman/tkman_2.1-4{.diff.gz,.dsc,
_<arch>.deb,_<arch>.changes}

I have a vague recollection that this information is in the New
Maintainers' Guide.

   Julian

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