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-Quick Guide To Patching This Package For The Impatient
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-
-1. Make sure you have quilt installed
-2. Unpack the package as usual with "dpkg-source -x"
-3. Run the "patch" target in debian/rules
-4. Create a new patch with "quilt new" (see quilt(1))
-5. Edit all the files you want to include in the patch with "quilt edit"
- (see quilt(1)).
-6. Write the patch with "quilt refresh" (see quilt(1))
-7. Run the "clean" target in debian/rules
-
-Alternatively, instead of using quilt directly, you can drop the patch in to
-debian/patches and add the name of the patch to debian/patches/series.
-
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-Guide To The X Strike Force Packages
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-
-The X Strike Force team maintains X packages in git repositories on
-git.debian.org in the pkg-xorg subdirectory. Most upstream packages
-are actually maintained in git repositories as well, so they often
-just need to be pulled into git.debian.org in a "upstream-*" branch.
-Otherwise, the upstream sources are manually installed in the Debian
-git repository.
-
-The .orig.tar.gz upstream source file could be generated this
-"upstream-*" branch in the Debian git repository but it is actually
-copied from upstream tarballs directly.
-
-Due to X.org being highly modular, packaging all X.org applications
-as their own independent packages would have created too many Debian
-packages. For this reason, some X.org applications have been grouped
-into larger packages: xutils, xutils-dev, x11-apps, x11-session-utils,
-x11-utils, x11-xfs-utils, x11-xkb-utils, x11-xserver-utils.
-Most packages, including the X.org server itself and all libraries
-and drivers are, however maintained independently.
-
-The Debian packaging is added by creating the "debian-*" git branch
-which contains the aforementioned "upstream-*" branch plus the debian/
-repository files.
-When a patch has to be applied to the Debian package, two solutions
-are involved:
-* If the patch is available in one of the upstream branches, it
- may be git'cherry-picked into the Debian repository. In this
- case, it appears directly in the .diff.gz.
-* Otherwise, the patch is added to debian/patches/ which is managed
- with quilt as documented in /usr/share/doc/quilt/README.source.
-
-quilt is actually invoked by the Debian X packaging through a larger
-set of scripts called XSFBS. XSFBS brings some other X specific
-features such as managing dependencies and conflicts due to the video
-and input driver ABIs.
-XSFBS itself is maintained in a separate repository at
- git://git.debian.org/pkg-xorg/xsfbs.git
-and it is pulled inside the other Debian X repositories when needed.
-
-The XSFBS patching system requires a build dependency on quilt. Also
-a dependency on $(STAMP_DIR)/patch has to be added to debian/rules
-so that the XSFBS patching occurs before the actual build. So the
-very first target of the build (likely the one running autoreconf)
-should depend on $(STAMP_DIR)/patch. It should also not depend on
-anything so that parallel builds are correctly supported (nothing
-should probably run while patching is being done). And finally, the
-clean target should depend on the xsfclean target so that patches
-are unapplied on clean.
-
-When the upstream sources contain some DFSG-nonfree files, they are
-listed in text files in debian/prune/ in the "debian-*" branch of
-the Debian repository. XSFBS' scripts then take care of removing
-these listed files during the build so as to generate a modified
-DFSG-free .orig.tar.gz tarball.