Debian packaging

Ad-hoc packaging from git repo without debian/ dir

DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck gbp buildpackage --git-ignore-branch --git-no-pristine-tar --git-upstream-tree=debian --git-ignore-new --git-builder="dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc"

Script to automatical produce origin tarball, based on debuild

/home/varac/bin/build-debian-package-from-git.sh

Packaging with existing debian/ dir

debuild -uc -us

dpkg buildpackage config options

Use DEBUILD_DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_OPTS in ~/.devscripts so you can call debuild without additional cli paramters:

debuild

Disable tests while building

export DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck

Edit changelog file

dch
dch -v 1.0beta2 'Tag 1.0beta2'

Build empty fake package

sudo apt-get install equivs

export NAME='pnp4nagios-web-config-nagios3'
echo "
Package: $NAME
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 728
Maintainer: varac <varac@leap.se>
Architecture: all
Source: $NAME
Version: 0.1-fake
Depends: bash,
Description: fake package until jessie-backports is available
" >> /tmp/equivs

# builds fake package
equivs-build /tmp/equis
# installs fake package
sudo dpkg -i .deb

#rm tmp jockey-common_0.9.7-0ubuntu7_all.deb

Request for Package (RFP)

https://wiki.debian.org/RFP