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DH-MAKE-ELPA(1) | User Contributed Perl Documentation | DH-MAKE-ELPA(1) |
NAME¶
dh-make-elpa - helper for creating Debian packages from ELPA packagesSYNOPSIS¶
- dh-make-elpa [--pkg-emacsen] [make]
DESCRIPTION¶
dh-make-elpa will try to create the files required to build a Debian source package from an unpacked GNU Emacs ELPA package.dh-make-elpa is an experimental script that performs a lot of guesswork. You should throughly verify the contents of the debian/ directory before uploading
TYPICAL USAGE¶
% cd foo
% git reset --hard 1.0.0 # package latest stable release
% dh-make-elpa --pkg-emacsen
% git add debian && git commit -m "initial Debianisation"
% git deborig
% dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
COMMANDS¶
- make
- Default command if no command is given. Creates debianisation from scratch. Fails with an error if debian/ directory already exists.
OPTIONS¶
- --pkg-emacsen
- Sets "Maintainer",
"Uploaders",
"Vcs-Git" and
"Vcs-Browser" fields in
debian/control according to the Team's conventions.
This option is useful when preparing a package for the Debian Emacs Addon Packaging Team <https://pkg-emacsen.alioth.debian.org>.
- --version
- Specify the ELPA package version. Useful when upstream failed to include either a Package-Version: header or a -pkg.el file.
TIPS¶
- Upstream remote
- The remote for upstream's git repository should be called 'upstream'. You can use:
AUTHOR¶
Written and maintained by Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>.A great deal of the library code used by dh-make-elpa, and its object-oriented structure, comes from dh-make-perl(1), written and maintained by the Debian Perl Group.
2017-01-23 | perl v5.24.1 |