Building this package for Debian
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This source package need no special handling for normal package builds.


Developing this package for Debian
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The source of this package is developed using git and the helper tool
git-buildpackage, with all official releases tagged and signed and
binary diffs of tarballs stored using pristine-tar.  This is documented
below /usr/share/doc/git-buildpackage/manual-html/ .

A custom build target shows current upstream and packaging versions:

    debian/rules print-version

Current upstream tarball can be prepared using this other build target:

    debian/rules get-orig-source

To switch to newer upstream source, first add a dummy changelog entry
and comment out DEB_UPSTREAM_TARBALL_MD5 before getting the source:

    dch -v ${new_upstream_version}-1 "Dummy changelog entry"
    sed -i -e 's/^\(DEB_UPSTREAM_TARBALL_MD5\b\)/#\1/' debian/rules
    debian/rules get-orig-source

Store new md5sum to help ensure identical source is received later.

Setting DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 enables additional build routines helpful
during development of the package, but unfit for normal builds.  This
typically includes the CDBS feature of auto-updating debian/control with
CDBS-related build-dependencies, which is forbidden by Debian Policy as
build environment must not change during automated builds.


Maintaining packaging build routines
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This source package wraps debhelper commands and other tedious parts of
the build routines using the CDBS framework.  Please refer to the actual
makefile snippets included from debian/rules for details on their
purpose and ways to override defaults.  Additionally, makefile snippets
included from below /usr/share/cdbs may also be documented in
/usr/share/doc/cdbs/cdbs-doc.pdf.gz .


 -- Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>  Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:28:29 +0100