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* [https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/Pre-Requisites Different options for setting up a Debian Sid environment] | * [https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/Pre-Requisites Different options for setting up a Debian Sid environment] | ||
* [https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingTutorial Building existing packages from source] | |||
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# apt source/dget, | # apt source/dget, | ||
# dpkg-source -x, | # dpkg-source -x, | ||
# dpkg-buildpackage, | # dpkg-buildpackage/debuild, | ||
# apt build-dep, | # apt build-dep, | ||
# apt-source -b | # apt-source -b | ||
Revision as of 18:47, 15 June 2021
We are guiding some learners of Free Software Camp to learn Debian Packaging and this page will be used to track the progress of the tasks.
Level 0: Setting up a Debian Sid environment for packaging
By this time you should be familiar with
- apt source/dget,
- dpkg-source -x,
- dpkg-buildpackage/debuild,
- apt build-dep,
- apt-source -b
commands to rebuild an existing debian package from source.
Level 1: Learn basics of Packaging
Understand the basic concepts using debmake/dh_make (getting source tarballs, creating source package, building the binary package, making it lintian clean)
Once you understand the basic concepts, use npm2deb to automate some of those tasks like getting source tarball, a better debian directory template than the ones created by dh_make/debmake as npm2deb knows more details specific to node modules. You will still have to fix the remaining issues flagged by lintian.
By this time you should know,
- creating lintian clean packages for simple modules and
- building it in a clean environment like sbuild.
- You should also know to import a dsc file to a git repo (gbp import-dsc --pristine-tar) and
- push your work to a public git hosting service like salsa.debian.org (git push -u --all --follow-tags)
Level 2: Packaging more complicated modules
Once you get a clear picture of packaging a simple module, we can move to the next stage of packaging more complicated modules that will involve things like, modifying some upstream files, removing some files from source tarball, generating some files from source, getting the source tarball from a git commit etc.
By this time you should know,
- Creating patches with quilt
- Repacking orig.tar and exclude specific files
- Use pkg-js-tools options to build from source files
- Build packages with typescript sources
Level 3: Pick an unpackaged but useful module and upload to archive
By this time you should know,
- How to file ITP
- How to send RFS mails