Re: What to do if there's already a debian-dir inside the .orig.tar?
2011/11/9 Björn Esser <bjoern.esser@googlemail.com>:
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> Hello!
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> What shall I do, when there's already a debian-dir inside the .orig.tar,
> e.g. when upstream already package his/her program for ubuntu?
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> Can I safely remove the existing debian-dir from the .orig.tar?
> What else can I do?
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> BR,
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> Björn
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You can simply ignore it; there's no need to repack the tarball just
to remove the debian dir. dpkg-buildpackage (or your favourite
wrapper) will remove the debian dir inside the original tarball and
use yours at build time.
Vincent
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