On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 02:39:13PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:26:13PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: > > I'm trying to build gtk2.0-dbg .deb from source. > > > > I downloaded: > > gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc > > gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff.gz > > gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz > > > > then: > > tar -xzvf gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz > > gunzip gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff.gz > > > > patch -p0 < gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff > > > > cd gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig > > That's a ... convoluted (and wrong) way to extract a source package. > Remove that gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig directory, and try this instead: > > dpkg-source -x gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc
I've seen it posted several times before, without anyone pointing out that it's wrong. Thanks, I'll stop doing it. Is that why I keep finding debian/rules without execute permissions? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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