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diff --git a/debian/README.source b/debian/README.source new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4ecd5e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/README.source @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +------------------------------------------------------ +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 using 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. |