Re: deb from source

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:26:13PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:
> I'm trying to build gtk2.0-dbg .deb from source.
> 
> I downloaded:
>   gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc
>   gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff.gz
>   gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz
> 
> then:
>   tar -xzvf gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz
>   gunzip    gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff.gz
> 
>   patch -p0 < gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff
> 
>   cd gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig

That's a ... convoluted (and wrong) way to extract a source package.
Remove that gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig directory, and try this instead:

  dpkg-source -x gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]