So you rebuilt a complete upstream tarball, it seems the sane way to go to my mind.
Yeah, I'm thinking of changing my mind on what we had said before, at least to simplify getting out an initial version.
A single reconstructed version had been the original plan, and that's basically what's in subversion.
When you check out the project you'll get the two real upstream sources (source code, and binary distribution that also contains the component libraries). And a dir for this version. To produce the upstream source simply take this dir and delete the debian directory from it, all our debian specific changes are in there. The debian dir contains a text file with notes on what has gone in to this rebuilt upstream source.
Then after a dpkg-source -b, you should have something that builds in pbuilder (takes a long time), and after that kicad & kicad-common packages.
I would be glad to check your work and even contribute. What are the URLs of the SVN repository and of the mailing-list?
http://svn.flexserv.de/websvn/ https://lists.mose.flexserv.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kicad-devel https://lists.mose.flexserv.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kicad-svn-commit Richard.