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Re: after the new maintenainer guide



On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:54:32PM +0100, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 14:37 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > You should read the Library Packaging Guide [0]
> 
> Thanks, I will.
> 
> > apt-get -b source will always work; or use debian/rules binary, or
> > dpkg-buildpackage, or debuild, etc.
> 
> The goal is to :
> 1rst - fetch the package source and unpack it
> 2nd  - modify the rules (most of the modification are about the
> "configure" options)
> 3rd  - build it.
> 
> I just miss how to perform the "1rst" . The "2nd" and the "3rd" are
> Ok...

I did not add these HOWTO to maint-guide this time.  It is already in
debian-reference.  As others said.  (But this gives you dependency)

 $ sudo apt-get buide-dep pkg
 $ apt-get source pkg

You may want to learn "apt-cache showsrc pkg" too.




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