[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Building mailman package from svn?

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:35:35PM +0200, Héctor García wrote:
> El vie, 18-08-2006 a las 06:45 -0400, emf escribió:

>> I'm working on an improved UI for mailman, and it would be helpful to 
>> build packages from the trunk.

>> What do I need to do to go from a svn checkout to an installed package?

> Expand the sources, and copy or mount (using the -bind or -o bind
> option) the debian file from the svn trunk into the sources.  Once
> this is done, go to the sources dir, make your changes and execute
> dpkg-buildpackage to create the debian package.  Doing this will
> give you some lintian errors about the existance of .svn dirs on
> /debian, but since it is for personal use/test, don't worry about
> it.

In order to avoid this message (also for official to-upload builds),
you can:

 - use svn-buildpackage
 - add the "-i" option to your debuild or dpkg-buildpackage call.

-- 
Lionel