Re: Academical question: How to package foo and foo-patched?
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 22:43:17 +0200,
Marc Haber <mh+debian-mentors@zugschlus.de> wrote:
[creating foo-patched .deb from foo .deb unmaintained by the upstream
or the Debian maintainer]
> How would more experienced Debian maintainers handle this issue?
There are some tools which unpack and/or patch the source at build time.
* debnest: unpacks a Debian style upstream source
(.orig.tar.gz, .diff.gz and .dsc in a tarball)
* cdbs: a set of Makefile fragments such as
- autotools.mk: calls ./configure with right arguments
(--prefix, --mandir, ...)
- debhelper.mk: calls dh_* auto-magically
cdbs includes simple-patchsys.mk, which applies patches at build time
and unapplies them at clean time
* dpatch: executes scripts (not diff files) in debian/patches
at build or clean time
* dbs: unpacks a tarball-in-tarball and patches the unpacked source
dbs does nothing at clean time because you just remove the source tree
The best way is to put source files of foo .deb in a tarball and
use that tarball as the "upstream" source of foo-patched .deb,
unpacking it with debnest. cdbs or dpatch will help you if you
modify the non-Debian part of the source a lot.
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