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commit 256e3976b3de473978719a7b13567ce9d0e0857d Author: Emmanuel Bourg <[email protected]> Date: Wed Apr 30 19:04:19 2014 +0200 Added debian/README.source to document the workflow used with this package --- debian/README.source | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ debian/changelog | 1 + 2 files changed, 65 insertions(+) diff --git a/debian/README.source b/debian/README.source new file mode 100644 index 0000000..23e489e --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/README.source @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +Information about visualvm +-------------------------- + +visualvm is a composite source package. It consists in: + +- The build script maintained by the IcedTea project + (Mercurial repository: http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/visualvm) + +- The source tarballs for VisualVM published at https://java.net/downloads/visualvm + * visualvm_xyz-src.tar.gz + * netbeans-profiler-visualvm_releaseXYZ.tar.gz + + +Building a new version +---------------------- + +Here are the steps to create a new upstream tarball: + +1) Clone the IcedTea repository in a new directory: + + hg clone http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/visualvm + +2) Download the source tarballs: + + cd visualvm + ./autogen.sh + ./configure + make download-visualvm + make download-netbeans-profiler + +3) Create the upstream tarball: + + tar -cJf visualvm_z.y.z.orig.tar.xz --exclude '.hg*' visualvm + +4) Update the constants in debian/rules. + +5) Adjust the version of the NetBeans platform used + (there are references in debian/control and debian/jvisualvm.sh) + + +Applying patches +---------------- + +quilt can't be used in the usual way since the source files are packed +in an archive. Patches can be applied by enabling 01-inject-patches.patch. +This patch will hook into the IcedTea makefile and apply a quilt series after +extracting the source files. The patch have to be declared in +debian/patches/series.netbeans-profiler. + +To create or modify patch you have to: + +1) Build the package once to extract the source files + +2) Use quilt by prefixing the command with: + + QUILT_SERIES=debian/patches/series.netbeans-profiler + + For example: + + QUILT_SERIES=debian/patches/series.netbeans-profiler quilt new 03-fix-another-issue.patch + QUILT_SERIES=debian/patches/series.netbeans-profiler quilt add path/to/file + nano path/to/file + QUILT_SERIES=debian/patches/series.netbeans-profiler quilt refresh + QUILT_SERIES=debian/patches/series.netbeans-profiler quilt pop -a diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index a00affa..3b557a4 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ visualvm (1.3.7-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium - Removed the Ant compatibility patch - Depend on libnb-platform18-java instead of libnb-platform13-java - Updated the constants in debian/rules + * Added debian/README.source to document the workflow used with this package * debian/copyright: - Refreshed the source URLs - Replaced Sun Microsystems with Oracle -- Alioth's /usr/local/bin/git-commit-notice on /srv/git.debian.org/git/pkg-java/visualvm.git _______________________________________________ pkg-java-commits mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-commits
