On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:08:48PM +0200, Andreas L. Gustafsson wrote: > Maybe this is a stupid question, but what is "The Debian diff.gz" doing > and when is it applied?
The debian diff.gz is just a file. By itself it does nothing. It is applied to the pristine upstream source to produce something that can be used to compile a Debian package by the canonical Debian package building procedure. It is applied when unpacking a Debian source package, which consists of two or three files: A *.dsc source description file, listing the other file(s). One of them is the (pristine) upstream source, the optional third file is the diff.gz. dpkg-source is the tool which does it, but you can do it manually either. Marcus
