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Re: Debian package from other orig.tar.gz



"Egor Tur" <worldeb@ukr.net> writes:

> Hi folk.
> I want to build package from source but with other orig.tar.gz.
> What can I do? Can I do change dsc file? md5sum?
> Thanx.

Extract the alternate tarball and apply the diff.gz to it with something
like

  zcat *.diff.gz | patch -p0

Then, clean it up if it didn't patch cleanly and build it with
dpkg-buildpackage or whatever.  If you're trying to package a newer
release, you may find uupdate helpful.

-- 
I would hate for my bungholio to get polio.

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