Hi, I got the automake/conf stuff to work, the diff is very small now, thanks!
My next problem is with another wanna-be package, the orig.tar.gz contains illegal flags for directories, which have to be corrected after unpacking (the author did not want to release a new version yet, just to correct that and he thinks its ok as it is...). The problem comes, when the diff is being created, dpkg-buildpackage can not read files which are in "illegal" directories in the orig.tar.gz, the diff can not be created -> no source package. Ive seen in some packages (ie xfree) a different approach. The original source is left as it is, put, without any (not even name) change into an orig.tar.gz and is extracted from debian/rules, patches are applied, unapplied, etc. Is this scheme documented somehow/where? I could try to copy it from xfree, but its a bit compplicated and includes a few things, which I do not need now, ie I do not need many seperate patches to be applied and unapplied, I just want to extract the source, fix some permissions and build. After building (in the clean target) I guess I have to delete the complete unpacked source. Im just looking for a cookbook recepie how to make my initial package that way, ie dh_make_with_real_orig_source or something :-) Christian
