Dear all, I'm creating a new deb package for the software Jarifa ( http://jarifa.unex.es), and I'm wondering when I should use quilt and git-buildpackage to modify at least as possible the upstream version of Jarifa files. Let me explain. Jarifa has a SQL file that by default creates the DB in MySQL. Nevertheless, in the deb package this is managed by dbconfig-common, so I have to remove the instruction of creating the DB in the SQL file. Right now I have done this, by creating a new git repository and modify the source code by hand.
After that, I kept reading about git-buildpackage and it seems that it should be more easy to maintain those differences between the upstream version and the deb one using patches. However, I don't know how I have to do this, as I have been trying it out, and as far as I have get is to create the debian/patches folder (using gbp-pq) with a patch that removes that instruction. However, when building the package using git-buildpackage in the master branch (not in patch-queue/master) the resulting package does not have applied the patch, which is wrong. Is it possible to apply automatically those patches when building the package? (FYI I have tried the 3.0 version, and I don't get it working either, probably because I'm doing something wrong). Thanks in advance, Daniel -- ·························································································································································· http://jarifa.unex.es/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/teleyinex ·························································································································································· Por favor, NO utilice formatos de archivo propietarios para el intercambio de documentos, como DOC y XLS, sino HTML, RTF, TXT, CSV o cualquier otro que no obligue a utilizar un programa de un fabricante concreto para tratar la información contenida en él. ··························································································································································
