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- Dash sources for Debian
- -----------------------
-
- The dash Debian package sources are available through git, and
- through 'apt-get source dash'. Getting the sources through git
- should be preferred:
-
- # apt-get install git # if not yet done
-
- $ git clone http://smarden.org/git/dash.git/
- $ cd dash
-
- After cloning the repository, you have checked out the debian-sid
- branch, ready to be used by dpkg-buildpackage, e.g.
-
- $ dpkg-buildpackage -i -rfakeroot -uc -us
-
- If you want to make changes in the ./debian/ subdirectory, this is the
- correct branch to work on. After making changes, document them in
- debian/changelog, and commit through 'git add' and 'git commit', or 'git
- commit -a', or similar. If you think the changes should be incorporated
- into the standard Debian package, create the patch[es] through 'git
- format-patch', and send them to the Debian Bug Tracking System, e.g.
-
- $ vi debian/rules
- $ debchange -pi
- $ git commit -a
- $ git format-patch HEAD^
-
-
- If you want to make changes to the upstream dash sources, first checkout
- the release+patches branch
-
- $ git checkout -b release+patches origin/release+patches
-
- The release+patches branch holds patches on top of the current release
- version that is packaged for Debian/unstable. The current release
- version is available in the release branch. If you are interested, you
- can checkout this branch too
-
- $ git checkout -b release origin/release
-
- When releasing a new Debian package based on a new upstream release, the
- release branch will be fastforwarded, and the release+patches branch is
- rewound and rebased onto the new HEAD of the release branch. This is
- done by, e.g.
-
- $ git checkout release
- $ git merge v0.5.5
- $ git checkout release+patches
- $ git rebase release
-
- You generally don't need to do that, but beware that the release+patches
- branch is rewound occasionally.
-
- After checking out the release+patches branch, make the desired changes
- to the upstream sources, and commit them. To integrate the changes into
- the Debian package, extract these changes, and change to the debian-sid
- branch (Note: the file extension for the patches is '.diff', use 'git
- config --add format.suffix .diff' to make that the default)
-
- $ git format-patch release..release+patches
- $ git checkout debian-sid
-
- Now move the extracted patches into the debian/diff/ directory, add a
- meaningful message to debian/changelog, and commit the changes to the
- debian-sid branch
-
- $ mv ????-*.diff debian/diff/
- $ git add debian/diff
- $ debchange -pi
- $ git add debian/changelog
- $ git commit
-
- Again, if you think the changes should be incorporated into the standard
- Debian package, create the patch[es] from the debian-sid branch through
- 'git format-patch', send them to the Debian Bug Tracking System.
-
- There's a mailing list to coordinate work on the dash packages, if
- you're interested in helping please subscribe to the
- <debian-package-dash> mailing list by sending an email to
- <debian-package-dash-subscribe@list.smarden.org>.
-
- -- Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:22:12 +0000
-