On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Thomas Schmitt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > i am the upstream developer of freshly orphaned packages > libburn4, libisofs6, libisoburn1, cdrskin, and xorriso. > Now preparing to get them in shape for sponsorship and > for closing old bug reports.
Thanks for taking time to improve debian! > So is there a way to do my packaging work in Debian 8.1 ? > (The PackagingTutorial says i shall write "9" into > debian/compat. Is that enough of a sid ?) No, this is unrelated. debian/compat is about which version of debhelper to is used. Read about pbuilder. https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/build.en.html#pbuilder > > Else: Is there a shortcut description how to quickly set up > Debian package development in a virtual machine and how > to keep it up to date ? > (Hardware is plenty but my own VM scripts date back to Debian 6.) > > - I still did not find a hands-on description of fulfilling > the demand of http://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers: > "All packages must be signed with the GnuPG key you configured > in your control panel." Use debuild -S (for source packages) or debuild -b (for binary packages). It should ask for your signature when you are finished. In fact I never use dpkg-buildpackage, debuild also runs lintian checks which spot many common errors. Kind Regards, Johan
