Desperate for deb docs

[Paul Lussier]

"Ben Scott" <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:

>> How does one re-build a .deb package?
>
>   You grab the source package, untar it.  You grab the patch file and
> apply it.  You run the build tools.

Err, how about:

 $ apt-get source foo
 $ dpkg-buildpackage -r fakeroot <other misc. options/flags>

>   I expect, with the success of Fedora, RPM-land is improving in the
> distro tools area.  And I would expect even dpkg-land has made some
> progress by now, too.  ;-)

Oh definitely! The number of tools available to deal with packages has
increased by several orders of magnitude in the last several years :)

Oh, wait, you meant "improved" not "increased" ;)

-- 
Seeya,
Paul