Debian

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 --git-upstream-tree=branch (where branch is the branch being used)

Reference

• GBP Error: not a valid treeish

Reference

• Using Quilt - Debian Wiki