Patching a source package

[Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org>]

Anyone have a pointer or notes on patching a debian source package and
rebuiding?

I want to fix a broken package.  I have notes from patching a source
package in the past, but they don't agree with what I'm seeing when I
try it now or from what I can find on google.

Can my google skills be that bad?  All I could find was this:

   http://lists.fivecolleges.net/pipermail/fclug/2003-August/003699.html

And here's my notes, which seem incomplete now:

  apt-get source will download a few files, so it's nice to start in a new dir
  $ mkdir <package> && cd <package>
  $ apt-get source <package>
  $ cd <package>-<version)
    (Modify the source as you like.)

  now update the package's version and build
  $ dch -v 0.9.3-2+local.1
  $ debuild -rfakeroot -uc -us
  $ cd ..
  # dpkg -i <package>-0.9.3-2+local.1_i386.deb

  very simple.

But when I try it now I don't see the sources uncompressed.


    moseley@bumby:~/libquicktime$ apt-get source libquicktime1
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    Need to get 673kB of source archives.
    Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main libquicktime 0.9.2release-5 (dsc) [883B]
    Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main libquicktime 0.9.2release-5 (tar) [664kB]
    Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main libquicktime 0.9.2release-5 (diff) [7734B]           
    Fetched 673kB in 8s (77.1kB/s)                                                                     
    dpkg-source: extracting libquicktime in libquicktime-0.9.2release
    moseley@bumby:~/libquicktime$ ls
    libquicktime-0.9.2release            libquicktime_0.9.2release-5.dsc
    libquicktime_0.9.2release-5.diff.gz  libquicktime_0.9.2release.orig.tar.gz


    moseley@bumby:~/libquicktime$ ls libquicktime-0.9.2release/dist
    fps-fix.diff               libquicktime-lib64.diff   optimize.diff
    libdv-fix.diff             libquicktime-rtjpeg.diff  rtjpeg-fix.diff.off
    libquicktime-0.9.2.tar.gz  mmx-fix.diff              shlib-ver.diff


Anyway, that pipermail archvie I found talks about editing the .orig
file.  Won't that avoid the patches in the Debian source package?

What I need to fix is just the configure script, I think.  Here's the
bug report <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252446>.
The library is reporting:

   Cannot open plugin directory ${exec_prefix}/lib/libquicktime

which seems like a compile time problem -- perhaps a quoting issue in
Makefile.am.






-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org