On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 09:39:59PM +0100, Pigeon wrote:
> 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:
> > >   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?

Yep. You *can* still do it by hand, see:

  /usr/share/doc/debian/source-unpack.txt

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Colin Watson                                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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