Le 24/04/2013 16:38, Felipe FV a écrit : > I really would appreciate some help on how things work at Java > development here. Where could I start?
Hi Felipe, Thank you for offering your help. I was in your position some time ago and I struggled a bit to get started. There is a lot of documentation to read as pointed out by Paul Wise, a lot of concepts to understand, and a lot of tools to learn. It can quickly become discouraging, so here is my quick howto: Part I - Install your development environment 1. Download the minimal ISO for installing Debian: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.7/amd64/iso-cd/debian-6.0.7-amd64-netinst.iso 2. Install it (on a spare box, or in a virtual machine) 3. Upgrade to the testing distribution Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and replace stable with testing Run: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade 4. Upgrade to the unstable distribution (same procedure) 5. Install the development tools: apt-get install build-essential svn-buildpackage git-buildpackage quilt 6. Edit ~/.profile and add your name and your email: export MAIL=john...@example.org export DEBFULLNAME="John Doe" 7. Create the file ~/.quiltrc and add: QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches QUILT_NO_DIFF_INDEX=1 QUILT_NO_DIFF_TIMESTAMPS=1 QUILT_REFRESH_ARGS="-p ab" 8. Create a GPG key (see http://keyring.debian.org/creating-key.html) 9. Register your account on http://mentors.debian.net, and add your GPG key 10. Create an account on http://alioth.debian.org, and upload your SSH public key there. 11. Join the pkg-java project on alioth Part II - Update a package To get used to the tools I suggest doing minor changes to existing packages. A good example is to fix a broken debian/watch file. This is the file that reports the latest upstream version available. 1. Display the list of Java packages: http://udd.debian.org/dmd.cgi?email1=pkg-java-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org#tabs-versions Every package with "error" in the 'upstream' column has a broken watch file. 2. Click on the name of the package, this brings you to the PTS page. Let's pick the aether package for example: http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/aether.html You'll see the message: "Someone wrote an updated debian/watch file you may want to include in the package." Great! Now let's fix this. 3. Checkout the package with: debcheckout --auth aether 4. Replace the debian/watch file by the one linked on the PTS page 5. Check that the new watch file is working properly with: uscan --report --verbose 6. Update the debian/changelog file with: dch --team 7. Commit your changes (with svn commit or git commit, git push) 8. Install the package dependencies: apt-get build-deps aether 9. Rebuild the package: dpkg-buildpackage 10. Upload the updated package to mentors.debian.net: dput mentors ../aether_1.13.1-3_amd64.changes 11. Wait for the upload confirmation by mail. The package will show up on https://mentors.debian.net/packages/my 12. Send a RFS (request for sponsorship) mail to this list and get a sponsor to upload the package to the official archive. The mentors site provides a ready to use template for the RFS. 13. Celebrate your first package update! :) The next step is to make a more substantial update to a package. I would suggest upgrading a library to a more recent version, fixing bugs or Lintian warnings. Hope this helps! Emmanuel Bourg
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