Help getting started -- trying to build csound package

[Giulio Paci]

Hi Forrest,

On 08/06/2012 05:52, Forrest Cahoon wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Forrest Cahoon <forrest.cahoon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> It looks like I get to fix up the patch so it applies now. Any advice
>> on how to do this?
> 
> On closer inspection, I have found that the diff for
> interfaces/CMakeLists.txt in
> debian/patches/0000-backported-cmake-additions.diff has been applied
> upstream.  I could manually remove that diff from the file, I'm under
> the impression I need to use quilt to manage these diffs so they'll
> continue to play nicely with the build? I'm poring over the quilt
> docs, but have yet to attain enlightenment.

As a first step I suggest you to follow the first part of this page
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/modify.en.html

And then use the alias dquilt. This avoid to constantly have to put
parameters required (or desired) to use quilt for Debian packaging.

Then have a look to debian/patches/series, which specify the order of
the patches, and remember that quilt manage a stack of patches. With
this in mind you can go back to the quilt documentation and try some
commands on the package, especially pop, push, edit and refresh.

I hope this is helpful.

Bests,
	Giulio.