Hi, there, Adam is exactly right. All I have now are the old *.deb and new, modified src or binaries. I want the old debian dir, not only the control file which can be extracted from the .deb, but the others, like rule, docs, dirs, ....
I certainly appreciate everyone's help so far. More guidance still needed. -- Jim On 0, Adam Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 08:38:57PM +0200, Bart Warmerdam wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 11:40:24PM -0700, Adam Klein wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 04:47:04PM -0500, Jianming YOU wrote: > > > > > > Use 'ar x myutil_1.0-1.deb' to unpack the parts of the deb, and then use > > > tar to extract the control files from control.tar.gz. > > > > > > > Better (at least easier) is: 'dpkg-source -x myutil_1.0-1.dsc' > > Well, if he had the source packages, that would work. I'm under the > impression > that all he has is the .deb. > > Adam
