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dir: /debian/README.source/
Package Structure ----------------- Say the SoX version is 14.3.0. the orig tarball is built by: 1) Creating a sox-14.3.0 folder; 2) Copying the upstream source tarball into it; 3) Calling "tar -czvf sox_14.3.0.orig.tar.gz sox-14.3.0". Modifying and Patching the Source --------------------------------- Patches can be applied by creating a debian/patches folder, adding patches to it and building the package again. Creating a Patch ---------------- Create your patch from the SoX root folder (e.g. /tmp/sox-14.3.0/build-tree). Copy it into the debian/patches folder. Patches are applied in the alphabetical order so you may want to use numbered prefixes. Patch Example ------------- Say you did an "apt-get source sox" in the /tmp/ folder and tried to build the package already, but want to create a patch. (The upstream tarball has been extracted in the build-tree/ folder). cd /tmp/sox-14.3.0/ mkdir debian/patches cd build-tree/ do your modifications to sox-14.3.0/src/sox.c and save your new file as sox-14.3.0/src/sox.c.new diff -Naur sox-14.3.0/src/sox.c.old sox-14.3.0/src/sox.c > \ ../debian/patches/01-some_fix_to_sox.diff debuild Hope this helps! -- Pascal Giard <pascal@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:45:49 -0400