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Mer/Documentation/Common Packages

Revision as of 21:03, 28 April 2009

Help bringing a package up to date

• Make yourself a launchpad.net account, upload your SSH keys, and install Bazaar.
• Grab the source package that Mer package is based on, and the new one from the Fremantle alpha, extract them. diff -ruN them, and save the diff (from now on patchname).
• Typical files to avoid patching (you can delete them in the resulting patch):
  • .in files
  • configure
  • (feel free to add more to the list)
• bzr branch <lp:something listed in table below>
• cd into the checked out directory
• Apply the patch from before (patch -p1 < patchname probably, you can patch -p1 --dry-run < patchname to test run the patch), fix it if it doesn't apply cleanly (watch out for configure and autoconf generated things)
• bzr add any added files (avoid .rej and .orig, bzr status is a good tool)
• dch -m -i, and add your personal log message. Name the version, Mer version + 1.
• bzr commit -m "your personal log message"
• bzr push lp:~yourusername/m-r/packagename
• Ideally, bzr export <some dir> lp:~yourusername/m-r/packagename, cd <some dir> and try to dpkg-buildpackage -b it.
• Point us to the branch and we'll put the branch in the repository and build it.

Most patches apply cleanly, though, you will most likely see patch failed in debian/changelog, is fairly easy to fix, just add the items from .rej without the +'s in the front and add an according version above it using dch.

Typical package repositories

• Diablo versions: http://repository.maemo.org/pool/diablo/free/
• Pre-alpha1: http://repository.maemo.org/pool/maemo5.0prealpha1/free/
• Pre-alpha2: http://repository.maemo.org/pool/maemo5.0prealpha2/free/
• Alpha: http://repository.maemo.org/pool/maemo5.0alpha/free/
• Beta: http://repository.maemo.org/pool/maemo5.0beta/free/
• Stage SVN trunk: https://stage.maemo.org/viewcvs.cgi/projects/haf/trunk?root=maemo , https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/trunk/
• Stage SVN tags: https://stage.maemo.org/viewcvs.cgi/projects/haf/tags?root=maemo , https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/tags/

Current package status