Packing new CPAN modules and upgrading existing ones

[Keith Lawson]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:33:50 +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote: 

> -=|
Keith Lawson, Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 09:42:43PM -0400 |=-
>> Yup I'm new
to packaging. Making a .deb package from CPAN source is easy enough with
dh-make-perl so I'm just trying to understand the rest of the process
now. What I'm struggling with is how the Perl group uses SVN. I've read
the SVN guid and understand SVN basics but I'm still missing parts. So
to update a package from upstream one would: - check out current source
from SVN - uscan - svn-upgrade ../new_release.x.y.tar.gz What's next?
>
Next, you build the package. Using a clean sid chroot is preferable as
it helps catching missing build dependencies. There are several tools
that can help with this, the easiest (IMHO) of which is pbuilder. You
need to create a tarball of the chroot: pbuilder --create --distribution
sid Then you build with pbuilder --debuild # run from the source
directory The resulting package is in /var/cache/pbuilder/result. You
may try installing it with dpkg and testing it. Final uploading can be
done only by people who have 'Devian Developer'[1] status. We use a
handy system[2] for notifying such people, who regularly review and
upload prepared packages. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDeveloper [1]
[2] http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/pet.cgi [2] In order to
make a package show in the 'Ready for upload' section, the changelog's
stanza should contain 'unstable' instead of 'UNRELEASED' for
distribution. The easiest way to do it is to call 'dch -r' and then
commit the change. There are many many more details about packaging,
spread over several large documents. Perhaps the easiest to read of them
all is the New Maintainer's Guide[3]. [3]
http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ [3] Welcome aboard!

This is
*exactly* what I needed. I read all the noted documentation, I was just
having trouble fitting it all together. Looking forward to working with
the team. Thanks so much! 

Keith. 

Links:
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[1]
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDeveloper
[2]
http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/pet.cgi
[3]
http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/
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