On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Joachim Wiedorn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I plan to create a Debian package of a new software which only have a git > repository, but no archive file. How should I create such a Debian > package? > > Is it enough to copy the git repo from the internet, remove .git/, rename > the main directory of the sources (<package>-<version>) and run dh_make > with --createorig to auto-create the orig directory?
You may just package off the git tree -- roll a .tar.gz for every release. You must note this in the changelog. If there is really no release (and never going to be), just pick a nice round number (such as 1.0), and keep git off that. Your version ID would look something like: 1.0[~|+]gitYYYYMMDD.HASHHASHHASH-1 In the "real" world, here was an unstable fluxbox release (before the 1.3.0 release) fluxbox 1.1.1+git20100908.df2f51b-2 Hope this helps! > > --- > Have a nice day. > > Joachim (Germany) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > Paul -- All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors. #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
