On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 18:15 -0400, Adam Schreiber wrote: > > I'm not familiar with what's needed for Debianizing. Do you have a > pointer to what you mean? > > Thanks, > > Adam Hey Adam, Debianizing just means to make the build environment able to produce relevant debian packages for Debian based GNU operating systems, like Debian, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Maemo, etc.. Usually this just means adding a debian folder in the source root which contains some configuration and scripts to control how this is done. This is how to debianize any project: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Complete And probably the best starting point would be to see how Debian has applied their downstream patch to your project to accomplish said. On a Debian based system, run "apt-get source seahorse" and it will download their patched version of your upstream tarball. http://packages.debian.org/lenny/seahorse If you look on the right, the source package consists of three files. The dsc is some kind of manifest / checksum / metadata, the orig.tar.gz is the upstream tarball source snapshot they used and unmodified, and the diff.gz are the changes they applied to debianize it. Running "apt-get source seahorse" on a Debian based system gets the tarball and automatically applies the downstream patch to it. I hope that helps. -- Kip Warner -- Software Developer President & CEO Kshatra Corp. OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com
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