Re: basics: easiest way to create new debian version?

[Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <gaia@iki.fi>]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 12:54:48PM +0200, Edvard Majakari wrote:
> how to create a new debian version out of the already debianized
> package - so far I've created package from the scratch every time (of
> course, some of the old debian files like rules, dirs etc can often be
> used as is with the new package).

I'm assuming you mean packaging a new upstream release, not creating a
new Debian revision of the same upstream source.

The natural way of doing this is unpacking the new upstream source, and
patching it with the latest Debian diff, and adding a new changelog entry.
The "uupdate" program (in devscripts) automates this.  You then need to
resolve any conflicts this introduces by checking the possible .rej files.

Remember to use the -u switch if you use uupdate.

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