john@dhh.gt.org writes: > Having a desire to look at the ppp_2.3.1 sources, I went to unstable on > ftp.debian.org and got what I guessed were the appropriate files: > ppp_2.3.1-3.diff.gz, ppp_2.3.1-3.dsc, and ppp_2.3.1.orig.tar.gz. I stuck > these in a directory, and, after perusing the dpkg-source man page, issued > the command: > > dpkg-source -x ppp_2.3.1-3.dsc > > and got this result: > > dpkg-source: error: tarfile `./ppp_2.3.1.orig.tar.gz' contains object > (ppp-2.3.1/) not in expected directory (ppp-2.3.1.orig) > > Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? I can make no sense of this > message. You need to upgrade your patch package to the one in unstable, I believe. The patch in unstable creates patch files that can't be read by the patch in stable. Cheers, - Jim
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