prevu can't backport 3.0 (quilt) format packages from current directory
Bug #717975 reported by
Richard Hansen
This bug affects 1 person
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Prevu |
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prevu (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: prevu
prevu can't backport 3.0 (quilt) format packages (see the dpkg-source(1) man page):
$ dget -u 'http://
$ cd gdm-2.30.5
$ prevu
...
dpkg-source: error: can't build with source format '3.0 (quilt)': no orig.tar file found
The problem is that the orig tarball (*.orig.
Attached is one possible way to fix it. The patch is somewhat hackish -- it'd be better if it was done using clean Python code instead of shell code.