Re: [be] BE and git-- I can't fetch it!

[Neil Mayhew]

On 2011-05-13 00:09, Teus Benschop wrote:
> Jonathan has assisted a lot with packaging. Jonathan, do you perhaps 
> have some spare time?

Hi Jonathan,

In case it's helpful, here's what I just did to hack together a package 
for 4.2.67:

* got an up-to-date git working directory (git clone 
git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/bibledit.git or git pull in an existing 
directory)
* change directory to the gtk/ subdir
* made a .orig.tar.gz using git archive (git archive 
--prefix=bibledit-gtk-4.2.67/ 4.2.67 . | gzip 
>../bibledit-gtk_4.2.67.orig.tar.gz)
* copied the debian directory from the 4.1-1 package (tar -xf 
.../bibledit-gtk_4.1-1~maverick2.debian.tar.gz)
* removed debian/patches since these have all been integrated upstream
* made a minimal addition to the changelog (dch -v 4.2.67-1 "New 
upstream release")

I was then able to use debuild -S to create the source package.

Perhaps the trick of using git archive to make .orig.tar.gz will make it 
easier to produce updated packages in the future.

Regards,

--Neil