Re: Getting Involved with Packaging [was Re: Building Debian Package From Upstream Source]

2016-09-27 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희, 黃炳熙)
> [...] > Start here: https://wiki.debian.org/HelpDebian Yes, i know my position is translation, thanks!!! -- ^고맙습니다 _地平天成_ 감사합니다_^))//

Re: Getting Involved with Packaging [was Re: Building Debian Package From Upstream Source]

2016-09-27 Thread songbird
Stephen Allen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 10:40:53AM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 05:37:40AM -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > >> > Sounds interesting, where should one start? I'm retired so have some >> > time. 8-) >> >> Start here: https://wiki.debian.org/HelpDebian >>

Re: Getting Involved with Packaging [was Re: Building Debian Package From Upstream Source]

2016-09-27 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 10:40:53AM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 05:37:40AM -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > > Sounds interesting, where should one start? I'm retired so have some > > time. 8-) > > Start here: https://wiki.debian.org/HelpDebian > Thank-you

Re: Getting Involved with Packaging [was Re: Building Debian Package From Upstream Source]

2016-09-27 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 05:37:40AM -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 11:11:37AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: You can also help out, if you want to exercise the skills: Figure out the intent of those patches, get the Debian packaging VCS onto your local environment, and see what

Getting Involved with Packaging [was Re: Building Debian Package From Upstream Source]

2016-09-27 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 11:11:37AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > You can also help out, if you want to exercise the skills: Figure out > the intent of those patches, get the Debian packaging VCS onto your > local environment, and see what has changed in the new version from > upstream that might

Re: Building Debian Package From Upstream Source

2016-09-26 Thread Ben Finney
Stephen Allen writes: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:00:03AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > Especially when patches are needed, you shouldn't expect those > > patches to apply to anything except the exact upstream version. The > > work of a Debian package maintainer

Re: Building Debian Package From Upstream Source

2016-09-26 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:00:03AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Stephen Allen writes: > > > So, I downloaded the upstream source, downloaded the most recent > > version of the Debian Package, so that I have a Debian source tree. > > Is the upstream source you

Re: Building Debian Package From Upstream Source

2016-09-25 Thread Ben Finney
Stephen Allen writes: > So, I downloaded the upstream source, downloaded the most recent > version of the Debian Package, so that I have a Debian source tree. Is the upstream source you downloaded, different from the upstream source (the ‘….orig.tar.gz’) to which

Re: Building Debian Package From Upstream Source

2016-09-25 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 10:43:04AM -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > Then I ran 'dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -j4' as root' [...] Note: Debian packages do not require to be built by root, so it's better that you don't. Using fakeroot is the default. Just install it and it will be used automatically by

Re: Building Debian Package From Upstream Source

2016-09-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 10:43:04AM -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > Hi, wanting to upgrade to a newer version of Liferea than what's in > Testing. > > So, I downloaded the upstream source, downloaded the most recent version > of the Debian Package, so that I have a Debian source tree. Next I >

Building Debian Package From Upstream Source

2016-09-25 Thread Stephen Allen
Hi, wanting to upgrade to a newer version of Liferea than what's in Testing. So, I downloaded the upstream source, downloaded the most recent version of the Debian Package, so that I have a Debian source tree. Next I copied the Debian source tree directory from the existing Debian source package