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Re: No debian/ folder in .deb file



Njes Nilsen wrote:
> After your answerers on this thread: 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2005/05/msg00381.html I tried to 
> edit the tasksel .deb file (just for my own testing purpose atm.)
> And I extracted the .deb file to a folder using the dpkg -x command.
> Edited some of the files, and thought I could just rebuild the .deb file.
> 
> But then I read this one: http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/
> I found out that I needed some files 
> (http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-dreq.en.html) to build the .deb
> So I thought I would find a debian/ folder in tasksel_2.23_all.deb, but
> I  don't.
> 
The tasksel_2.23_all.deb is the binary pacakge.  If you want to modify
the package you need to do 'apt-get source tasksel', which will leave
you the complete Debian source of tasksel, including all the package
building infrastructure for the package.

> Why not? Don't you need some of those files to build the .deb in the
> first  place?

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr

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