Re: Debian Packaging Tutorial

[Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>]

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I’ve been working on a Debian packaging tutorial. It is composed of
> about 60 slides providing a throughout overview of Debian packaging.
>
> It now reached the point where I consider it ready for use, and I am
> looking forward to reviews and comments.
> The document is split into 4 different PDFs:
> * the tutorial itself:
>  http://git.debian.org/?p=users/lucas/packaging-tutorial.git;a=blob_plain;f=packaging-tutorial.pdf;hb=refs/heads/pdf
> * a practical session about modifying the ‘grep’ package:
>  http://git.debian.org/?p=users/lucas/packaging-tutorial.git;a=blob_plain;f=pract1-grep.pdf;hb=refs/heads/pdf
> * a practical session about packaging the ‘gnujump’ game from scratch:
>  http://git.debian.org/?p=users/lucas/packaging-tutorial.git;a=blob_plain;f=pract2-gnujump.pdf;hb=refs/heads/pdf
> * a practical session about packaging a Java library:
>  http://git.debian.org/?p=users/lucas/packaging-tutorial.git;a=blob_plain;f=pract3-java.pdf;hb=refs/heads/pdf
>
> And of course, it can be found on git.debian.org:
> git clone git://git.debian.org/~lucas/packaging-tutorial.git
>
> Comments very much welcomed!

Hey Lucas,

Thanks for providing this. I've noticed an inconsistency and have
attached a patch.

-matt zagrabelny

>
> - Lucas
>
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From 133689f78d3bb1ee9eda44c38567c9dcf1d3b502 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 13:31:55 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Unmatched parenthesis Remove opening parenthesis from
 Request For Help acronym expansion. This keeps the acronyms
 and their expansion consistent.

---
 packaging-tutorial.tex |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packaging-tutorial.tex b/packaging-tutorial.tex
index daebbd4..790d2f9 100644
--- a/packaging-tutorial.tex
+++ b/packaging-tutorial.tex
@@ -910,7 +910,7 @@ Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-perl/trunk/libwww-perl
     \item \textbf{ITA}: \textbf{I}ntent \textbf{T}o \textbf{A}dopt\\
       Someone intends to adopt the package\\
       You could propose your help!
-    \item \textbf{RFH}: (\textbf{R}equest \textbf{F}or \textbf{H}elp\\
+    \item \textbf{RFH}: \textbf{R}equest \textbf{F}or \textbf{H}elp\\
       The maintainer is looking for help
     \end{itemize}
     \hbr
-- 
1.7.4.4