Njes Nilsen wrote: > After your answerers on this thread: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2005/05/msg00381.html I tried to > edit the tasksel .deb file (just for my own testing purpose atm.) > And I extracted the .deb file to a folder using the dpkg -x command. > Edited some of the files, and thought I could just rebuild the .deb file. > > But then I read this one: http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ > I found out that I needed some files > (http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-dreq.en.html) to build the .deb > So I thought I would find a debian/ folder in tasksel_2.23_all.deb, but > I don't. > The tasksel_2.23_all.deb is the binary pacakge. If you want to modify the package you need to do 'apt-get source tasksel', which will leave you the complete Debian source of tasksel, including all the package building infrastructure for the package.
> Why not? Don't you need some of those files to build the .deb in the > first place? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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