Building syncevolution for Debian
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The source package needs no special instructions; the discussion here
is about working with the git repository.
Patches are exported based on debian/source/git-patches; each line is
an argument to git-format-patch. The variables $DEB_VERSION and
$UPSTREAM_VERSION are the Debian and upstream version being exported.
You can either use git-format-patch manually, or install gitpkg
version 0.17 or later.
1) To have the patches automatically exported at source package creation time
a) to setup gitpkg, run
% git config gitpkg.deb-export-hook /usr/share/gitpkg/hooks/quilt-patches-deb-export-hook
b) run
% gitpkg master
to make a source package.
2) To manually export patches, run
% ./debian/rules export-patches
The original source tarballs are stored in the git repo using
pristine-tar. You can (optionally) check out the current tarball by
git branch pristine-tar origin/pristine-tar
# UPSTREAM should be the current upstream version
pristine-tar checkout ../syncevolution_$(UPSTREAM).orig.tar.gz
-- David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>, Tue, 8 Mar 2011 19:34:24 -0400
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