Building the Debian source package for ‘comixcursors’
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Upstream versions not easily available
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The source tarballs for ComixCursors are stored at a $FOO-Forge site with
awkward redirection done via HTML. Currently ‘uscan(1)’ is unable to
recognise or download these files automatically.

Getting the latest upstream source
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Until a way is provided to automatically discover the URLs for downloading
specific versions of the upstream source, this must be done manually:

* Visit the upstream homepage (URL given in ‘debian/copyright’ “Source”
  field).

* Use the download link from that page labelled “Source” for the file named
  ‘ComixCursors-sources-$VERSION.tar.bz2’ where “$VERSION” is the latest
  upstream version.

* Rename (or create a symlink for) the downloaded file to
  ‘comixcursors_$VERSION.orig.tar.bz2’.

You can then update the ‘debian/changelog’ as usual and use
‘bzr-buildpackage --source’ as usual to create a Debian source package.


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 -- Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>, Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:55:48 +1100
