On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, BROWN Nick wrote: > Yes, please, tell me what that file means ?! (Or better still, point me at > the right page of the FM)
The diff.gz is the compressed diff required to go from upstream tarball (.orig.tar.gz) to buildable debian tree. To unpack, you do dpkg-source -x <...>.dsc To unpack by hand, should you need to (for example, to apply the old patch to a newer version of the source) tar xvzf <...>.orig.tar.gz cd <....> zcat ../<...>.diff.gz | patch -p1 To simply review and ponder the debian diffs, so you can see what changes will be made, zless ../<...>.diff.gz (If you're not familiar with the unified diff format, this may not be clear, but it's fairly intuitive). The correct FM is probably the packaging-manual, which is on the web pages, and available as a debian package. Section 3.3 goes into some detail on the roles of the 3 files. Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
