Re: diald anyone?

[Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca]

  Bill Hogan writes:
  Bill>  "DE" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca>
  Bill> writes:
  DE> ... A lot of doc is in /debian/project/standards.  There is for
  Bill> example the `hello' package.  Grab the hello-1.3.4.deb and
  Bill> hello-1.3.4.tar.gz.  Unpack the .tar.gz and look at the control
  Bill> files.  Read the doc from /debian/project/standards. ...
  Bill>    I have these files but I do not see how `patch' is supposed to be
  Bill> applied to these two files to restore the status quo ante.

You might be right. There was some discussion recently whether a
'un-debianisation' of the sources is/should be/will be provided. It is not
required. Some people do, some don't (I don't as I copied my debian.rules
from hello).

debian.rules for hello doesn't have a target for reverse patching.

I also forgot to tell you that you need the original hello package from the
GNU site prep.ai.mit.edu or one of its mirrors in order to create the diff
file for Debian.

Hope this helps,

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Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca