Latest revision |
Your text |
Line 1: |
Line 1: |
| I maintain bubblefishymon. | | I maintain bubblefishymon. |
|
| |
|
| ==Misc==
| | * Step 1: apt-get source bubblefishymon to get the source and take a look inside. It's saved in ~/. |
| | |
| * I can check what's happening in ubuntu here: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/universe/b/bfm/bfm_0.6.4-5ubuntu1/changelog | |
| | |
| * I accidentally deleted my deb-src lines in /etc/apt/source.list. When I tried to run apt-get source (package), I got this error: E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list . Added deb-src lines back in, ran apt-get update, and now it's all good.
| |
| * Tried to switch to 3.0 (quilt) source format (https://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0#How_to_convert_a_source_package.3F) but I kept getting an error message (dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b gave error exit status 2) when I tried to dpkg-buildpackage. The solution was to run dpkg-source --commit.
| |
| * man 7 intro gives introduction to overview, convention (i.e. (1) means sub-man page etc).
| |
| * READ on dh_auto_build and dh_auto_install!
| |
| | |
| ==Basic Steps==
| |
| | |
| *Use fakeroot, not root.
| |
| | |
| 1. apt-get source bubblefishymon: get the source
| |
| | |
| 2. Fix the bugs. See below for specific examples.
| |
|
| |
| 3. Build package after some fixes:
| |
| | |
| ::dpkg-buildpackage (-us -uc skips the signing stage) -rfakeroot: This makes dsc and changes and diff.gz files in the *parent* directory (i.e. /home/mika/).
| |
| :::if it gives an error dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: Unmet build dependencies x y z, run apt build-dep bfm.
| |
| | |
| | |
| 4. Run lintian on changes to check errors in the directory where .changes files exist:
| |
| | |
| ::lintian -i -I *changes (if there are multiple changes files in the same folder, specify here.)
| |
| | |
| 5. Test the package by:
| |
| | |
| ::sudo debi (the change file name)
| |
| | |
| 6. Make (dch -i (change description)) or edit in editor the changelog file in the debian folder. The format is:
| |
| | |
| ::bfm (0.6.4-3) unstable; urgency=low
| |
| | |
| :: * (Change description. Make sure to add (Closes: #bugnumber) if the change fixes the bug.
| |
| | |
| :: -- Mika Matsuzaki <mika@yukidoke.org> (Timestamp, automatic by dch)
| |
| | |
| Note: dch -i added *Non-Maintainer upload automatically because it saw my laptop's ID instead of my maintainer email. I can edit /home/mika/.bashrc to specify DEBFULLNAME="" and DEBEMAIL="" . Then, do exec bash (starts bash but kills old bash. If you just run bash, then it will run bash inside the existing bash).
| |
| | |
| | |
| 7. Upload .dsc and <s>.diff.gz</s> .debian.tar. and orig.tar somewhere, so that the sponsor can get it.
| |
| | |
| 8. pbuilder can help simulate the problems in sid (problems if using Ubuntu. Just use Debian):
| |
|
| |
| :: sudo pbuilder create --distribution sid
| |
| | |
| ==Bug reports==
| |
| | |
| * switch to 3.0 (quilt) -- followed this instruction https://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0#How_to_convert_a_source_package.3F and dpkg-source --commit
| |
|
| |
| * Homepage update in control
| |
| | |
| * 667112 on gcc command line option -Wl
| |
| | |
| Removed -Wl from:
| |
| LDFLAGS = -shared -Wl
| |
| | |
| -Wl means "pass the following option to the linker"
| |
| | |
| * Delete in debian/control file:
| |
| .
| |
| Homepage: http://www.jnrowe.ukfsn.org/projects/bfm.html
| |
| And add after Standards-Version:
| |
| Homepage: http://www.jnrowe.ukfsn.org/projects/bfm.html
| |
| | |
|
| |
| # Updated to Standards-Version: 3.9.1 in debian/control file
| |
| | |
|
| |
| * Fixed black background in WindowMaker. Someone had a patch on github. Downloded the patch and in the bfm folder:
| |
| | |
| patch <- (patch file)
| |
| | |
| * Fixed FTBFS bug with binutils-gold. It said that I had to specify the library (libX11). Changed 2 times in bfm-0.4.4/Makefile (Mako):
| |
| GTK_LIBS = -lX11 $(shell gtk-config --libs)
| |
| | |
|
| |
| * Fixed menu as directed by lintian in 2 steps:
| |
| Instead of Apps/Systems --> Applications/Systems
| |
| Instead of Applications/Systems --> Applications/Systems/Monitoring
| |
| When I search for the lintian error messages, I get a page that has a list of packages with the same error plus the suggested solution on top.
| |
| | |
|
| |
| * Fixed Copyright by adding in debian/copyright:
| |
| | |
| Copyright:
| |
| | |
| Copyright (C) 1999 Merlin Hughes
| |
| Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Johan Walles <d92-jwa@nada.kth.se>
| |
| Copyright (C) 2001 Pigeon
| |
| Copyright (c) 2009 James Rowe <Jay@jnrowe.ukfsn.org>
| |
| | |
|
| |
| * Fixed the nonstrip option problem by editing debian/rules (Clint):
| |
| ifeq (,$(findstring nostrip,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
| |
| INSTALL_PROGRAM += -s
| |
| STRIP_PROGRAM = strip
| |
| else
| |
| STRIP_PROGRAM = true
| |
| endif
| |
| | |
|
| |
| * Fixed watch accordingly to the suggestion on BTS so as to report the upstream update (though it's not happening now since there's no upstream developer):
| |
| version=3
| |
| http://www.jnrowe.ukfsn.org/projects/bfm.html../_downloads/bfm-(.*)\.tar\.bz2
| |
| | |
| ==Miscellaneous things==
| |
| | |
| * If you want to build a binary package, the package has to be 'installed'. The correct way to do this is by using the utility fakeroot, which fakes an install, so that you can build a binary package as non-root and without really installing it. The following command should build a binary package:
| |
| | |
| ::fakeroot debian/rules binary
| |
| | |
| The binary target is yet another Makefile target that will first execute a configure, build and install if still necessary. If you already did build the package, then only an install would first be done, etc.
| |
| | |
| * While testing changes that you make to the code, you can (re)build the package with the command:
| |
| | |
| ::debian/rules build
| |
| | |
| * clean the source tree? (fakeroot debian/rules clean)
| |