[patch, iceape] remove README.build, add README.source

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Mon Jan 1 13:07:01 CET 2007


On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 12:34:59PM +0100, Alexander Sack <asac at debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 12:23:37PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> 
> Content-Description: README.source
> > README.source for iceape
> > ===========================
> > 
> > This package uses dpatch to manage patches, use
> > fakeroot debian/rules patch
> > to get a patched sourcetree after dpkg-source -x and use dpatch-edit-patch to
> > generate new patches.
> > 
> > 
> > Building from SVN:
> > -----------------
> > #1 Fetch the source tarball from upstream and extract it.
> 
> please refer to the debian/rules 'source' target. IIRC, it will
> download the proper version parsed from changelog, extract it and
> remove CVS as well as currently known non-free files ... and finally
> build proper orig.tar.gz.

Note that I just changed the source target so that it doesn't do the
removal of CVS files, since I added that to remove.nonfree

> > #2 Change into the generated directory and pull the debian specific files from
> > SVN:
> > svn export svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-mozilla/iceape/trunk/debian debian
> > chmod +x debian/rules
> 
> in consequence, this needs to be #1

Why ? #1 is about getting the source tarball from upstream. Actually,
there needs to be some step between #2 and #3 to generate the
.orig.tar.gz.

Also note that the upstream source tarball can be get with uscan. That
may be good to add that to the source target...

Mike



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