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Re: Trouble Building with Original Sources



On Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 05:08:50PM -0600, Paul Serice wrote:
> Another thing that might be of interest is that the original tarball
> unpacks to the current directory instead of creating its own
> subdirectory.

I would create the tarball with it's own directory to extrace into. It
will still be pristine source and it will work better with the builds.
Call the directory name-x.x.orig/ I think dpkg-source needs this in
order to do the diff right.

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