On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 21:04 +0200, Rafael Belmonte wrote: > Hello, my name is Rafael,
Hello Rafael, > I have been learning some of Debian packaging, Great! > and I plan to package for Debian some packages that are already in > Ubuntu, Sure, why not. > so I think i am in the right place. True, for discussing which packages in Ubuntu might be worth copying to Debian. Help with packaging can be asked on debian-mentors. > My idea is to use and build directly from source packages obtained > from Ubuntu repositories, but checking firstly that they build in a > Debian system Yes, use a clean environment of sid (=unstable), or pbuilder or some similar tool. > and changing the maintainer field if necessary. That is required. > If you think i am in a wrong way, please tell me. So far you're in the right way. > My first dude is how to manage package version of packages that are in > Ubuntu but aren't in Debian. > For instance, lets look package partitionmanager, its version in > Ubuntu is 1.0.0~beta1a-0ubuntu2, where 1.0.0~beta1a is upstream > version, -0 is Debian revision, which is cero becouse this package is > not in Debian, and ubuntu2 is the Ubuntu revision. I want to sync and > merge this package from Ubuntu to Debian, but what version must I use > for Debian? > Should I use 1.0.0~beta1a-1 Yes. Regards, Bart Martens _______________________________________________ Utnubu-discuss mailing list Utnubu-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/utnubu-discuss