Control: reassign -1 dpkg-dev 1.17.27 Control: affects -1 devscripts Control: retitle -1 dpkg-source -x overwrites existing directories
On Sat, 2016-06-04 at 18:08 +0200, ydir...@free.fr wrote: > dget unpacks the downloaded source by default, even if the target directory > was > pre-existing. Moreover, it does not just unpack it above the pre-existing > dir, > but removes it first, together with all the other files it may contain ! Nope. dget simply calls "dpkg-source -x". The effect is trivially reproducible by calling "dpkg-source -x somepackage.dsc an-existing-directory" without needing to involve dget at all. Regards, Adam
