Tony, I'll give the git-import-dscs method a shot. I really didn't expect there not to be an official maintainer repo :D
Thanks. On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:47 PM, tony mancill <tmanc...@debian.org> wrote: > On 06/06/2014 06:05 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 17:59 -0500, Pedro DeKeratry wrote: > >> I wish to rebuild telnetd package with some slight mods for an > >> embedded application, and I want to keep my changes on a branch off > >> the maintainer line. > >> > >> Anyway, I can't seem to find where to clone from. help? > > > > There appears to be no repository for this package. > > Hi Pedro, > > You could create a suitable local repo with all of the version history > with: > > git-import-dscs --debsnap netkit-telnet > > Or if you don't need any history and only want the latest copy: > > dget -x > > http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/netkit-telnet/netkit-telnet_0.17-36.dsc > git-import-dsc netkit-telnet_0.17-36.dsc > > Maybe that helps? > tony > >