Building a Debian package for Ubuntu

[Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 04:07:51PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> Can anyone point me (or explain) the details required to build a
> Debian package for use on Gutsy?
> 
> I want to fetch a Debian Sid source package, apply all the Debian patches,
> and build it on Gutsy.  I don't have to create a .deb (I can just
> "make install") but I do want to apply the patches.

That's easy.

1. Install build-essential, fakeroot, dpkg-dev.
2. Fetch the package, unpack it with dpkg-source -x packagename.dsc.
3. Install all the build dependencies (listed in the debian/control file).
4. Run dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us inside the unpacked package
   directory.

If you add sid's source repository into your apt sources.list, you can
do steps 2-4 with two commands:

  sudo apt-get build-dep packagename
  sudo apt-get source -b packagename

Good luck.
Marius Gedminas
-- 
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