On 14/04/14 22:00, Barry Drake wrote: > On 14/04/14 18:48, Tobias Frost wrote: >> Just debstrap yourself an Debian sid chroot for development :) Will be >> also easier to get support here, as there are differences to Ubuntu, >> and you spare yourself the dual-booting :) > > Haven't a clue as to how to do that. The information at [1] is a very good guide, especially using pbuilder-dist (from ubuntu-dev-tools). Picking out a piece of informaton from [1]: > If you want to build Debian packages on Ubuntu, you need to install > Debian archive keys and add Debian distribution name, Debian mirror > and key location to pbuilder command line like this: > > sudo apt-get install debian-archive-keyring > sudo pbuilder create --distribution unstable \ > --mirror ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ \ > --debootstrapopts "--keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg" Running Ubuntu or any other Debian/Ubuntu based operating shouldn't in my opinion be a barrier to contributing to Debian. Currently I run Linux Mint and use chroots for Debian Wheezy, Testing and Unstable as well several Ubuntu releases. Regards, -- Daniel Lintott GPG Key: 4096R/5D73EC6E
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