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diff --git a/package/debian/README.source b/package/debian/README.source deleted file mode 100644 index 4ecd5e6..0000000 --- a/package/debian/README.source +++ /dev/null @@ -1,49 +0,0 @@ ------------------------------------------------------- -Quick Guide To Patching This Package For The Impatient ------------------------------------------------------- - -1. Make sure you have quilt installed -2. Unpack the package as usual with "dpkg-source -x" -3. Run the "patch" target in debian/rules -4. Create a new patch with "quilt new" (see quilt(1)) -5. Edit all the files you want to include in the patch with "quilt edit" - (see quilt(1)). -6. Write the patch with "quilt refresh" (see quilt(1)) -7. Run the "clean" target in debian/rules - -Alternatively, instead of using quilt directly, you can drop the patch in to -debian/patches and add the name of the patch to debian/patches/series. - ------------------------------------- -Guide To The X Strike Force Packages ------------------------------------- - -The X Strike Force team maintains X packages in git repositories on -git.debian.org in the pkg-xorg subdirectory. Most upstream packages -are actually maintained in git repositories as well, so they often -just need to be pulled into git.debian.org in a "upstream-*" branch. -Otherwise, the upstream sources are manually installed in the Debian -git repository. - -The .orig.tar.gz upstream source file could be generated using this -"upstream-*" branch in the Debian git repository but it is actually -copied from upstream tarballs directly. - -Due to X.org being highly modular, packaging all X.org applications -as their own independent packages would have created too many Debian -packages. For this reason, some X.org applications have been grouped -into larger packages: xutils, xutils-dev, x11-apps, x11-session-utils, -x11-utils, x11-xfs-utils, x11-xkb-utils, x11-xserver-utils. -Most packages, including the X.org server itself and all libraries -and drivers are, however maintained independently. - -The Debian packaging is added by creating the "debian-*" git branch -which contains the aforementioned "upstream-*" branch plus the debian/ -repository files. -When a patch has to be applied to the Debian package, two solutions -are involved: -* If the patch is available in one of the upstream branches, it - may be git'cherry-picked into the Debian repository. In this - case, it appears directly in the .diff.gz. -* Otherwise, the patch is added to debian/patches/ which is managed - with quilt as documented in /usr/share/doc/quilt/README.source. |