Re: modifying orig.tar.gz

[James Troup <james@nocrew.org>]

"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry@home.com> writes:

> 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.

Which no longer works... if you want to change the .tar.gz, then the
filename must change too (i.e. alter the version number).  This can be
something simple (1.7.6a) or something complex (e.g. gcc package's
'ds<n>' system).

-- 
James