The dependencies needed for build package from source are
# sudo apt-get install build-essential fakeroot devscripts dpatch dh-make expect
to build a package obviously you need the source and its dependencies
$ apt-get source blender
# apt-get build-dep blender
and finally you can build it
$ debuild -b -uc -us --no-pre-clean
If you want to install the dependencies before the build of the package you can do
$ mk-build-deps
$ apt install ./<package>_build-deps_<version>.deb
There are some utilities in Debian that can be used in order to deploy correctly a package; first of all, can be inspiring to look at some pre-existent packages in order to understand how some things work. A page with the git repositories of packages can be found here
http://packages.qa.debian.org/
searching for a package shows a page with a link to the repositories.
It is also possible to cross compile a package.
If during packaging an error like happens
dpkg: error processing easy-backup (--purge):
subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 10
then delete /var/lib/dpkg/info/xyz.postrm.
In order to install a specific package version you can use a command like
$ apt-get install subversion-tools=1.3.2-5~bpo1
it's the tool used to increment the version number and edit the changelog file.
Standard documentation about
version system used in Debian.
- http://www.fifi.org/doc/debconf-doc/tutorial.html
- http://webapps-common.alioth.debian.org/draft/html/index.html
- http://people.debian.org/~seanius/policy/examples/dbconfig-common/doc/dbconfig-common-using.html
- http://mdcc.cx/debian/debugging_debian_package_installations.html
- Checkinstall CheckInstall keeps track of all the files created or modified by your installation script ("make install" "make install_modules", "setup", etc), builds a standard binary package and installs it in your system giving you the ability to uninstall it with your distribution's standard package management utilities.
- https://wiki.debian.org/PkgSplit
The patches are into patch/, one file for each patch, and a file named series with the list of all the patches
to apply.
- Source list generator
- https://tracker.debian.org/
- https://serverfault.com/questions/279153/why-does-reprepro-complain-about-the-all-architecture
- https://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2016-pragmatic-debian-packaging
- https://grml.org/
- https://fatemachine.github.io/live-armor/ Building Custom Live Images with Debian and Grsecurity