Re: Article: How to make a Debian package without using a helper

[Rob Taylor <robtaylor@fastmail.fm>]

aec wrote:

> > It was created by extracting roaddemo-1.0.1.tar.gz, which happened in 
> > the line 'tar xvfz roaddemo-1.0.1.tar.gz'
> >    
>
> Not to nitpick but I think Giovanni is correct...
> $ tar xvfz roaddemo-1.0.1.tar.gz 
> would create a directory roaddemo-1.0.1 not roaddemo_1.0.1
>
>  
Ah, um, yes, you're quite right.. That was a classic pre-coffee post ;)


Rob