Hello David. The way into debian is a complicated one. There are a LOT of helper scripts out there, which have grown. Some of them are still useful, some are not. On top of that, the contents of the debian/ directory are plentiful, and not very well documented, if I may say so.
My solution was to create a new repository (ports and packages) outside of my project, and put the debian/ directory in it. And edited the contents by hand. I also added a shell script mkpackage.sh, and only used three tools: debuild, debsign and dput. Within this script, I am also creating the orig.tar.gz, to make sure that it only contains files that I want it to contain. If you would like to have a look, you can clone it from here: github.com/dettus/ports_and_packages maybe it helps. Thomas > David Griffith <[email protected]> hat am 11. Januar 2020 um 05:57 geschrieben: > > > > I'm trying to debianize Frotz 2.50 and put the debian/ directory into the > git repository. A complication is that the contents of a dist file > differs from what you get from a git clone. This is what I get from > dpkg-source -b ./ > > dpkg-source: info: using options from frotz-git/debian/source/options: > --tar-ignore=public > dpkg-source: info: using source format '3.0 (quilt)' > dpkg-source: info: building frotz using existing ./frotz_2.50.orig.tar.gz > dpkg-source: info: using patch list from debian/patches/series > dpkg-source: info: local changes detected, the modified files are: > frotz-git/.gitlab-ci.yml > frotz-git/Makefile > frotz-git/public/index.html > frotz-git/src/dos/bchash.h > dpkg-source: info: you can integrate the local changes with dpkg-source > --commit > dpkg-source: error: aborting due to unexpected upstream changes, see > /tmp/frotz_2.50-1.1.diff.B02OBO > > My problems: > 1) .gitlab-ci.yml handles the Frotz webpage > https://davidgriffith.gitlab.io/frotz/, which lives in public/. By way of > .gitattributes, that's automatically stripped out of the tarball when > making a distribution source tarball. It should be ignored by > dpkg-source too. > > 2) I can't seem to make dpkg-source ignore public/. I put 'tar-ignore = > "public"' into debian/source/options and it doesn't seem to work because > dpkg-source is still complaining about public/index.html. > > 3) When a dist tarball is made, hash and date information is put into > Makefile and dos/bchash.h by way of export substitutions in > .gitattributes. The object of this is to embed commit hashes and build > times into the executable. How do I tell the debianization process that > these changes are okay? I'd rather not have to do "made dist", open up > the resulting tarball, and debianize there. > > 4) I would also like the debianization process to ignore src/dos/ as well > because that contains MS-DOS specific code. > > > My working code for this is in the debian branch at > https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/frotz > > > -- > David Griffith > [email protected] > > A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? >
