Neale Banks wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I just unpacked ppp source package from woody (i.e. "dpkg-source -x
> ppp_2.4.1-4.dsc") and was most surprised to find that this didn't unpack
> the source but rather gave me a ppp-2.4.1/upstream/ directory with
> tarballs/ and patches/.
That's called DBS and is an alternative packaging system. It's very helpful
for large packages with lots of patches (like XFree86 for example). Please
go to debian-devel for questions, explanations etc. Debian-doc is the wrong
list.
On a sidenote, I read a couple of days ago that somebody had documented
dbs, so you may find some documentation somewhere these days.
Regards,
Joey
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