[patch, iceape] remove README.build, add README.source

Alexander Sack asac at debian.org
Mon Jan 1 12:34:59 CET 2007


On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 12:23:37PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:

Content-Description: README.source
> README.source for iceape
> ===========================
> 
> This package uses dpatch to manage patches, use
> fakeroot debian/rules patch
> to get a patched sourcetree after dpkg-source -x and use dpatch-edit-patch to
> generate new patches.
> 
> 
> Building from SVN:
> -----------------
> #1 Fetch the source tarball from upstream and extract it.

please refer to the debian/rules 'source' target. IIRC, it will
download the proper version parsed from changelog, extract it and
remove CVS as well as currently known non-free files ... and finally
build proper orig.tar.gz.

> #2 Change into the generated directory and pull the debian specific files from
> SVN:
> svn export svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-mozilla/iceape/trunk/debian debian
> chmod +x debian/rules

in consequence, this needs to be #1

 - Alexander
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