[gcompris-devel] help needed

[Yves Combe]

Yavor Doganov wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 01:38:38PM +0530, Ankit Sahai wrote:
>   
>> *boss at boss:~/Desktop/gcompris-8.4.8/gcompris-8.4.8$ debuild -us -uc -d
>>  fakeroot debian/rules clean
>> debian/rules:16: /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch.make: No such file or directory
>>     
>
> # aptitude install dpatch
>   
but dpkg-buildpackage should have given the list of the needed package, 
including dpatch.
In debian, when i want to compile myself a package, i use apt-get 
build-dep to make sure all the dependancies are installed.

>> *Actually there is no debian folder inside gcompris-8.4.8 folder which 
>> comes after extracting .orig.tar.gz.*
>>     
>
> Of course!  All Debian-stuff, including patches to the upstream source, 
> is in the .diff.gz.  The orig.tar.gz is precisely the same as the 
> upstream tar.gz, even the md5sum matches.
>   
"dpkg-source -x file.dsc" extracts the tar.gz and applies the patch, 
after md5sum checking all is ok. Just need the .dsc, the diff.gz, and 
the tar.gz.

debian packaging comes with very cool tools.
-- 
yves