On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 08:35:06AM +0000, dblmr wrote: > So then I decided to forge ahead. I found the latest orphaned package, which > was > > png23d > > and installed it, which seemed to work, maybe. I got the following: > > Processing triggers for man-db (2.11.2-2) ... > ====== How can you help? (doc: https://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help ) ====== > > New packages where help is needed, including orphaned ones (from WNPP): > - png23d - https://bugs.debian.org/1079265 - O (Orphaned) > ----- Show old opportunities as well as new ones: how-can-i-help --old ----- > > at the end of the install messages. Then I went back to the instructions, and > it said to get the upstream source code in the form of a tar.gz file. My > question is this, wouldn't I just find a git repository and clone it these > days?
No, Debian source packages still must include orig tarballs, and while you can clone the upstream repo to get one it's usually suboptimal. Also it looks like you are reading instructions for creating a new package from scratch, which is not relevant here. -- WBR, wRAR
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