On Monday 26 July 1999, at 10 h 51, the keyboard of Dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The web pages give much information about creating Debian packages. > However, I am starting out by adopting an existing package, which I > have found much information about doing. Could someone point me in > the right direction on how to modify existing packages? Basically, you should get the source of the package in your home directory. <footnote>I strongly suggest to start with CVS right now. It is *much* more painful to do it later. <url href="http://www.debian.org/devel/HOWTO.cvs"/>.</footnote> Debian distributes the source of the packages in $DEBIAN/dists/unstable/main/source. A source is made of three parts: the pristine source (.orig.tar.gz), the Debian patch (.diff.gz), and a description (.dsc). These sources can be processed with standard Unix tools, or you can use 'dpkg-source -x package_xyz.dsc').
