Re: .tar.bz2 archives, what to do with dpkg-source ?

[Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 08:38:17PM +0000, John Leuner wrote:
> I issue:
> 
> $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
> 
> which subsequently does:
> 
> dpkg-source -b makeme-0.00
> dpkg-source: building makeme using existing makeme_0.00.orig.tar.gz
> 
> gunzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> dpkg-source: failure: gzip gave error exit status 1
> cpio: premature end of archive
> 
> because my original archive is:
> 
> makeme-2000-06-26.tar.bz2
> 
> How do I tell it to use bz2?

You can't do that. But, it's allowed to bunzip2+gzip it.

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