Re: What to do when new version available upstream...
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 11:57:02AM -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> 1. tar zxvf upstream_src.tgz
> 2. Apply the .diff that was generated when I produced 0.26.2 (and get rid
> of the files like changelog, control etc.)
I usually extract the new one (or apply a patch if that is the method),
gunzip -dc old_version.diff.gz > somefile, then edit that 'somefile' and
replace all instances of progdirectory-1.2.0 with progdirectory-1.2.1.
Then apply that new diff with patch -p0 < somefile. And then clean up the
.rej and .orig files and apply the missing stuff manually.
BTW rename upstream_src.tgz to aspell_0.27.orig.tar.gz so that it gets
recognized by dpkg-buildpackage automatically.
> 3. dh_make and try to build?
dh_make should IMHO be used only for new packagings. When you already
have a good debian/* and others, why start again with default files?
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