> 3 files in dir to install sources: *.diff.gz, *.orig.tar.gz and *.dsc
>
> dpkg-source -x fails with:
>
> "diff patches file whose dir does not appear in tarfile"
>
> I could comment some lines in *.dsc for the dir specified in the
> error message, but I don't
> understand the formats. How does it work ? So I wanted to install the
> man pages for "diff" which gives the same kind of error ! What do to ?
>
The best fix is probably to install dpkg from unstable. But then you'd
also have to install libc6 (from unstable).
The problem you see is a problem found in the old dpkg (or was
it dpkg-dev) packages.
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