IRC ?

[renaud gaudin]

On 06/06/2012 06:46 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote:

> First thing: please provide a download link for the /debian folder you
> use when building the package. You said earlier, that you have such a
> folder maintained upstream.

http://download.kiwix.org/src/nightly/2012-06-06/kiwix-20120606_r3619-debian.tar.gz

> Recend Debian packages use source format 3.0 (quilt), that means we have
> to provide an orig.tar.<comp> file with the package. The neatest tool
> for that is git-buildpackage (a wrapper around dpkg-buildpackage).

OK, that's what Vasudev proposed also.

> The goal is to get the source tree on git.debian.org/git/collab-maint
> build with ,,git-buildpackage -uc -us''.

OK, I'll work towards this.

> This currently does not work as the upstream tarball contains build
> cruft...

http://download.kiwix.org/src/nightly/2012-06-06/kiwix-20120606_r3619.tar.gz

This version should be cleaner. I haven't tested it yet as there's no 
power. I will try to build following your instructions. Feel free to 
comment by email in the mean time.

renaud