Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil wrote:
> Hello
> I have downloaded
> somepackage..diff.gz
> somepackage.dsc
> somepackage.orig.tar.gz
> from incoming. Presently I have a potato installation
> How do I make a deb file from the above
> TIA
> sunil
cd /your/build/directory
dpkg-source -x /path/to/somepackage.dsc
cd somepackage-version # just created in the build directory
dch -i # edit the package release number and change the maintainer's
# name to your own; best to add .0 after the current release
# number so as not to get out of sync with 'official' versions
debuild
packages required:
dpkg-dev
devscripts
any listed in debian/control under Build-Depends
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