Re: Is it possible to convert a debian source package to a tar b

["Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry@attbi.com>]

On 08-Dec-2001 scott worley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been reading the man pages on dpkg & dpkg-deb to find out if it's
> possible to covert the deb source directory:
> 
> foo-x.y.z.orig
>       debian-dir with all the patches
>       upstream-source-dir
> 
> to a source tar ball with all patches applied?
> 
> dpkg & dpkg-deb man pages talk about build rules being applied but the
> result is still a deb.  I guess I could manually try to extract the
> patches from the files in debian dir but for the package in question
> there are quite a few.  Is there a tool to just apply the patches to the
> upstream source so I could then tar ball it?
> 

this is not how Debian packages exist.  Each source has a orig.tar.gz, a .dsc,
and a .diff.gz.  The diff is every difference between the upstream and Debian. 
So to get what you want simply:

dpkg-source -x foo.dsc
tar czvf foo.version.tgz foo-version/

Now, some packages do actually have patches in the debian dir, but this is not
standard.