Hi, since I'm rather unexperienced with Debian packaging, I thought it might be instructive to build a custom package with a small patch (which is not of great use but easy to verify by its result). While my customly built package seems to work, I'd like to know if there's something I missed or I could improve and so on. Also I'd like to share my experience, because it was fun figuring things out. :D So here's what I've done (I hope it's not too mundane for all the readers of this list):
First, I've downloaded a diff [1] from KDE which corrects Okular's behaviour when showing a landscape document in the "Opposite Pages" mode (see bug report [2]) to a local folder. (BTW: I use Debian Wheezy.) Then I downloaded the Okular's sources and applied the patch using: $ apt-get sources okular $ cd okular-4.8.4 $ patch -p1 ../changeset_r7d18d176bc60855dec4f38262fa32d9aa31146c4.diff (changeset_r... is the diff downloaded from KDE) Then I used $ dch -l~test to change the version of the package. I thought it's a good idea to choose a smaller version number, so I could easier get back to the original versions using aptitude or apt. When I wanted to compile the patched package, I was told that I should use $ dpkg-source --commit which, from what I figured out, "tells" quilt about the changes applied to the source. (I suspect that I could use quilt directly to apply the patch?) Then I used $ fakeroot debian/rules binary although I have the feeling, that this is not useful. (I read that it's used to find out if a package can be built [3]. But it seemed to build the complete package. So why not directly doing the next step?) Eventually, using $ dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc I've built my custom packages, which I installed using dpkg. So, I'm quite happy to see that things worked and I've not broken my system so far ;D (which would have surprised me, since okular is not really essential and I am up-/downgrading between almost the same version of the package, so what could happen?). Anyway, I'd like to thank the QT/KDE maintainers for their work. It's hard to estimate for me how much effort it takes to write scripts and tools to package the different parts of KDE so that even I can compile them, but be assured that I highly appreciate your work! Regards, Stan [1] https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdegraphics/okular/repository/revisions/7d18d176bc60855dec4f38262fa32d9aa31146c4/diff/ui/pageview.cpp [2] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305194 [3] http://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201305030121.54232.nood0...@web.de
