Re: How to recover the debian/ dir

1999-04-17 Thread Adam Klein
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 05:14:50PM -0500, Jianming YOU wrote: 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,

Re: How to recover the debian/ dir

1999-04-17 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 05:14:50PM -0500, Jianming YOU wrote: 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, What you're asking is in essence a de-compiler. I'm sure you know why such a beast is impossible

Re: How to recover the debian/ dir

1999-04-16 Thread Adam Klein
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 04:47:04PM -0500, Jianming YOU wrote: Hi, Experts, I once packaged my own utility using debhelper and the resulted myutil_1.0-1.deb was installed succefully. Now I updated myutil and intent to build myutil_1.1. I could go through the same process from dh_make

Re: How to recover the debian/ dir

1999-04-16 Thread Bart Warmerdam
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:

Re: How to recover the debian/ dir

1999-04-16 Thread Adam Klein
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

Re: How to recover the debian/ dir

1999-04-16 Thread Brian E. Ermovick
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 02:58:29PM -0700, Adam Klein 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

Re: How to recover the debian/ dir

1999-04-16 Thread Jianming YOU
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

How to recover the debian/ dir

1999-04-15 Thread Jianming YOU
Hi, Experts, I once packaged my own utility using debhelper and the resulted myutil_1.0-1.deb was installed succefully. Now I updated myutil and intent to build myutil_1.1. I could go through the same process from dh_make . The mentors from this mailing list always suggest to copy the

Re: How to recover the debian/ dir

1999-04-15 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 04:47:04PM -0500, Jianming YOU wrote: How can I recover the debian dir from myutil_1.0-1.deb ? You can't. You need to have a copy of the source to myutil...deb, and take the debian/ dir from there. Another quick question: why does debhelper add -1 to the version