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Packaging, repository management, user environment setup, and more.
General Administration
Prepare a default home directory
# mkhomedir_helper $USER
Package Development
Preparing an environment
Everything needed to build debs as the distribution maintainers do.
Development packages
# apt install build-essential devscripts git-buildpackage
GBP issues
gbp:error: upstream/... is not a valid treeish
If running gbp in a debianized source directory results in this error, try running gbp with
(where branch is the branch being used)
--git-upstream-tree=branch