Package: devscripts Version: 2.9.7 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hello,
I'm not sure if this is already possible, so please tell me if it is. I maintain some packages for which I am also upstream. When preparing a new release, I usually also prepare a Debian package. It is useful to make a Debian package without going through the "create upstream tarball" mess. This will have to be done for the actual release in the end anyway, of course, but for checking if things are right, and changing them a bit, it's not nice. So I wrote a script to build a Debian package from an upstream source directory, generating the orig.tar.gz on the fly. It doesn't touch the current tree, so it can be used without fear of losing files on new "clean" rules, for example. Is this useful? Is this a duplicate effort, and can it be done with some existing tool I do not know about? I attached the script to this report. I have a second version of it as well, for generating debugging versions of packages. That's quite a bit harder, as I wanted to change the name (by adding -dbg to it) and that's quite an invasive change. Anyway, I added that as well. One of the problems with it is that it adds a Conflicts: and a Provides: for the original package name, but it doesn't check if those lines are already there, so you may end up with two of them. I think that's not allowed. I wanted to show it anyway to get some feedback, but keep in mind that the -debug version probably doesn't completely work. Please let me know what you think about it. Thanks, Bas Wijnen -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii debianutils 2.14.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii dpkg-dev 1.13.11 package building tools for Debian ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii perl 5.8.7-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii sed 4.1.4-3 The GNU sed stream editor Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii fakeroot 1.5.1 Gives a fake root environment -- no debconf information
mkdeb
Description: application/shellscript
mkdeb-debug
Description: application/shellscript
