On 26 October 2017 19:45:29 CEST, Vincent Bentley <vince@???> wrote:
>Have you tried alien?
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>apt-cache show alien
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No, but I'm not sure that it is a full on solution..... it gets you out of a hole for odd packages as far as I remember? And you don't end up with a source package?

I need to be able to hack some of the source files due to different file paths, and then build as debs.

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