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Notes about Debian packaging.
Packaging, repository management, user environment setup, and more.
 
=General Administration=
 
==Prepare a default home directory==
 
# mkhomedir_helper $USER


=Package Development=
=Package Development=

Latest revision as of 21:07, 18 March 2024

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

Reference