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diff --git a/debian/README.source b/debian/README.source deleted file mode 100644 index 34ab4bf..0000000 --- a/debian/README.source +++ /dev/null @@ -1,73 +0,0 @@ ------------------------------------------------------- -Quick Guide To Patching This Package For The Impatient ------------------------------------------------------- - -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. - ------------------------------------- -Guide To The X Strike Force Packages ------------------------------------- - -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. |