<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">i need some help here, because i have no clue about packaging debs... :o( i understand that you would like me to do this: * put the debian/ dir into the xubuntu dir in svn, as: ubuntu-doc/xubuntu/debian/</blockquote><div> right. that dir you get using $apt-get source xubuntu-docs </div>which will download and unpack the source package. inside the unpackaged dir issue $debuild -us -uc and you'll get the binary package (.deb file) similar to what is generated on the build servers and in the archive. you have to have the devsrcipts ipackage installed for debuild <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">*change the Makefile so that this gets copied to: ubuntu-doc/build/xubuntu/debian </blockquote><div> no, debian should just remain in svn. The reason for the debian dir to be there is, that if you change the layout of the doc, either of the source or the resulted build you can adjust the debian/rules files in the same step. That is the makefile that drives the package build. </div> Actually the debian source package contains not the contents of the build dir, but the svn sources. So debian/ + svn source docs map 1:1 to the debian source package. And with a svn export libs, common, xubuntu, debian to a new dir you essentially get the layout of the xubuntu-docs package in which you can try debuild -us -uc to see if you're ok with the resulting layout which is generated in debian/xubuntu-docs. <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">-------------- the workflow for working on documentation would then be: * edit files in: ubuntu-doc/xubuntu/desktopguide/... *run Makefile *make the deb </blockquote></div> yes. no need to install, as seen above Then you and other docteam members essentially have control over where the final docs will be put, and I (or someone else) will only have to upload so it's less disconnect :) thanks Jani