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

[Alexander Sack]

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 01:07:01PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 12:34:59PM +0100, Alexander Sack <asac at debian.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Note that I just changed the source target so that it doesn't do the
> removal of CVS files, since I added that to remove.nonfree

ah .. fine.

> 
> > > #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
> 
> Why ? #1 is about getting the source tarball from upstream. Actually,
> there needs to be some step between #2 and #3 to generate the
> .orig.tar.gz.
> 
> Also note that the upstream source tarball can be get with uscan. That
> may be good to add that to the source target...
> 

ah ok ... then I did not remember correctly. I thought source target
already downloads upstream tarball for us too ...

 - Alexander

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