Requesting a Debian package for Ubuntu?

[Jyrki Pulliainen]

On 7/18/06, Adam Funk <a24061 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is there any official procedure for requesting a package that already
> exists in Debian for addition to Ubuntu?

I think you can file a bug in launchpad for it, others can correct am I right.

If you need badly the packet, you can also compile it yourself as
Debian and Ubuntu are mostly source-compatible. Here's a short howto:

1. Download the source-packages (you need the .dsc-file, possible
patch diff-file and the .tgz file)  from Debian repos (for example
from http://packages.debian.org/)
2. Decompress those (dpkg-source -x filename.dsc)
3. Change directory to one previous command created (usually source
package name without extensions)
4. Check build dependencies (dpkg-checkbuilddeps there) and install
missing packages if possible.
5. Compile debs  (dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc).

After compiling (might take a while) you'll have a load of .deb-files
(one or more, depends on the package) in the parent directory. Just
feel free to install those (dpkg -i packagename.deb)

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Jyrki // jyrki.pulliainen at gmail.com