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Re: Whoops- extracting source for deb.



On Sunday 07 Oct 2001 9:06 pm, Hereward Cooper wrote:
> I accidently deleted the source directory of my package, but have a
> copy of the .deb it generated. When I run dpkg-source -x
> <package-name> it gives me a couple of errors that i know about (as I
> was play around with it), and so stops. Is there anyway I can force
> extract the source from the deb, regardless of the errors?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hereward

Umm no.  a .deb is the binary archive.  It contains the binaries of the 
package.  The source package contains the source.  There is no source 
in the .deb.

Sorry,
-- 
Stephen Stafford
finger bagpuss@debian.org to get gpg public key



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