Course: Workshop Debian Packaging

Topic outline

General
- Ankündigungen Forum
- Debian Package Building Book
  The idea of this workshop is "learning by doing". It is sharing of experience and knowledge. The questions of the attendees are in focus. It will help newcomers to start with packaging.
  There is a book and a script. Both are work in progress.
  The book is written in German. .
  https://people.debian.org/~mechtilde/Dokumentation/
  The included scripts are in English. They are described in the book. They are also available at
  https://people.debian.org/~mechtilde/Dokumentation/Skripte
  You can get the source code under
  https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/dpb
  We can meet us under https://jitsi.debian.social/DebianPackaging according to prior agreement.
  Please contact me in IRC at #debian-academy on OFTC
Starting point
What are your expectations?
What are your skills?
What is your experience?
This can also be discussed at IRC (#debian-academy at OFTC)

To sign the package for upload you need a gpg-key with 4096 bit and signed from minimum one Debian Developer.
Preparation of the build system
Extracting the shell script from the book
```
apt install noweb git
```
- Clone the repository from salsa.debian.org
git clone https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/dpb.git
cd dpb
- Execute the script ./create-buildscript.sh
- You get the program scripts which can guide you through the packaging process.
- You configure your system to have the prerequisites at defined locations
- Install all dependencies needed to run this program script
apt install git-buildpackage build-essential less pbuilder pristine-tar sudo unzip cowbuilder cowdancer debmake quilt locate jq lintian devscripts
You want to build your first package?
- What is the name of it?
- Where is the source code repository?
- We look at the source code to get information how it can be built.
Building the first time
Starting the script the first time:
- Creating the configuration file
- Download the source code
- Creating the files in debian/
- Patching if necessary
- Building the first time
Debugging
Debugging to get a proper and working package
Lintian clean?
Lintian clean
Preparing for sponsoring
Uploading
Uploading (to New Queue?)
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