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Re: Custom deb packages?



On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 11:55:22PM -0700, debian@xtremedev.com wrote:
> I've got a few debian machines here that I'd like to update with a custom
> w3m .deb package. i
...
> Thus far, I've gotten to:
> 
> 1. apt-get source w3m
> 
> But that's about it. apt-get gave me this listing:
> 
> w3m-0.2.4/
> w3m_0.2.4-1.diff.gz
> w3m_0.2.4-1.dsc
> w3m_0.2.4.orig.tar.gz
> 
> But then, I don't see the extracted source under w3m-0.2.4/, just debian/
> and upstream/, neither of which has a debian-prepatched source which I can
> modify before repackaging up. I'm sure this is a common enough occurance
> that someone would have figured out an elegant way to do it. No?

This looks like a package which wraps upstram tar.gz as is in upstream/ while
keeping patch files in debian/patches with sortable filenames.

You have to read debian/rules and figure it out, I think.
debian/riles.mk seems extract script for tar ball.

Good luck :)

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