building a package

[Pere Camps <pere@casal.upc.es>]

Hi!

	I trying to learn to build packages from their source packages and
I've run into trouble.

	I've just downloaded an source package from my mirror and now I'm
triying to make a compiled package. The package is ppp from the unstable
tree.

	After downloaded I've executed:

	$ dpkg-source -x ppp_2.3.9-1.dsc
	$ dpkg --build ppp-2.3.9

	And I get:

	dpkg-deb: failed to open package info file 
`ppp-2.3.9/DEBIAN/control' for reading: No such file or directory

	I've renamed ppp-2.3.9/bebian to ppp-2.3.9/DEBIAN but now I get:

dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `ppp-2.3.9/DEBIAN/control' near line 6:
 missing package name

	I'm sure I could dig more info and start looking more deeply into
the references, but I must be missing something here if this doesn't work
now. Can somebody help me?

	TIA!

-- p.