This page contains notes about Debian and Ubuntu packaging.

Debian

• ​Debian Package Auto-Building
• ​Alioth.debian.org

Launchpad

Requirement to upload packages:

• update OpenGPG to ​http://keyserver.ubuntu.com and then register OpenGPG in your Launchpad account

Build package from tarball

### Based on notes by Ivan Mincik 
### http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073444.html

export BASE=70
export CUR=7.0.0RC1-3
export NEW=7.0.0RC2-1

# 1. Download latest existing version of package from Launchpad
dget https://launchpad.net/~grass/+archive/ubuntu/grass-stable/+files/grass${BASE}_${CUR}%7Eubuntu14.04.1.dsc

# 2. Prepare working directory with git enabled
mkdir pkg-grass
cd pkg-grass
git init

# 3. Import downloaded version of package from Launchpad
git-import-dsc ../grass${BASE}_${CUR}%7Eubuntu14.04.1.dsc

# 4. Import new tarball we want to build
(cd .. ; wget http://grass.osgeo.org/grass${BASE}/source/grass-${NEW}.tar.gz)
git-import-orig ../grass-{NEW}.tar.gz

# 5. Optionally, merge Debian packaging (content of debian direcory:
# lp:~grass/grass/grass70_release_debian) here:

# Update Debian changelog
dch -i
git diff

# Update local Git
git add debian/changelog
git commit -m "Debian changelog update"

# Prepare source upload
git-buildpackage --git-debian-branch=master --git-builder="debuild -S -sa" --git-ignore-new

# Upload source package for build to Launchpad
dput ppa:grass/grass-stable ../grass${BASE}_${NEW}_source.changes