Re: [PATCH v2] tools: Improve make deb

[Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@heliman.it>]

Il 26/02/2013 15:23, Alex Bligh ha scritto:
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> --On 26 February 2013 15:16:44 +0100 Fabio Fantoni 
> <fabio.fantoni@heliman.it> wrote:
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>> Sorry, Ian is right on this. I learned how to create deb packages
>> according to the standards in the last months, I had better double check
>> the patch.
>> I'll redo init with update-rc.d in next patch version.
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> Feel free to steal the code from my minideb patch.
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Your package is using debhelper and devscripts, here I'll do only 
minimal deb for "make dist" that seem sufficent for devel/testing.
About your package for production use is very important  to remove 
version from name to make it correctly upgradable.
If you want to do complete xen package to add for example in ubuntu 
launchpad until debian official will be complete, these can be useful:
- use seabios of debian repository using this patch (already tested and 
working):
http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-xen/trunk/xen/debian/patches/tools-firmware-seabios-packaged.diff?view=markup
- use upstream qemu 1.3 or 1.4 from repository (patch to do), I already 
tested qemu package from debian experimental manually, is full working 
and with also spice and usbredir included (missed for now on upstream 
xen build of qemu-xen)

I think the best thing is test and help official debian package, if I 
remember well was:
svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-xen/trunk
# Put the debian folder into xen souce folder
# Use quilt for update patches if you use earlier version
fakeroot debian/rules debian/control # to generate control file
debuild -i -b -us -uc # To test the build

When I have sufficent time I'll help it.

@Ian or Stefano:
About use upstream qemu from debian package on xen debian package:
Do I need to only remove the build (similar to seabios packaged patch) 
or may I also need to patch libxl/xm?