dpkg-buildpackage woes

[Leslie Viljoen]

The Saltydog wrote:

>On 6/21/05, Leslie Viljoen <leslie at camary.co.za> wrote:
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>>So now I think everything is hopelessly messed up. Where do
>>I go from here? Can I get back to my .orig package + my changes
>>and now + my new changes (to the debian/rules file) ?
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>Why don't you try cleaning up everything, make a good
><package>_<version>.orig.tar.gz , a clean a tested Makefile, and run
>debuild -S -sa??
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Alrighty. I guess, being smart, I'll just make a backup of the files in
debian that I spent so much time creating ;-)

The maint guide says to use dh_make first, should I do that?
Do I run debuild instead of "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot"?



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