Re: modifying orig.tar.gz
On 28-Nov-2001 Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I adopted a package, koth, and wanted to change its build process.
> For that I needed to change its orig.tar.gz, now dinstall is
> rejecting to overwrite it, I'd like to know what I need to do,
> upstream is not releasing anything for now...
>
> btw, the modifications I did were untarring
> koth-1.7.6/upstream/tarball/koth-1.7.6.tar.gz's contents on koth-1.7.6/
> and removing the upstream/ directory
>
look at the man page for dpkg-buildpackage, it will tell you how to inform
dinstall that you intended to upload the source again.
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