Building The Debian Package
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Building The Debian Package

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and upload the Lire .deb. 
              $ cd ~/cvs-sourceforge/logreport/package/debian
              $ vi changelog 

:r !date --rfc

              $ cd /usr/local/src/debian/lire/debian/20010219
Run something like 'DIB_V=20020214 DIB_P=lire DIB_TARDIR=../archive/ ./debian-install-build'. This does: 
              $ cd /usr/local/src/debian/lire/debian/20010219
              $ cp \
  ~/cvs-sourceforge/logreport/service/lire-20010219.tar.gz .

              $ tar zxf lire-20010219.tar.gz 
              $ cd lire/20010418
              $ mv lire-20010418 lire-20010418.orig
              $ tar zxf lire-20010418.tar.gz
              $ cd lire-20010418
              $ mkdir debian
              $ cp \
   ~/cvs-sourceforge/logreport/package/debian/[^C]* debian/
Export the shell environment variable EMAIL, it should hold your email address, as it is to appear in the maintainers field of the package. (One could use 'dh_make --copyright gpl -s' on first time debianizing.) Build the .deb by running: 
$ debuild 2>&1 | tee /tmp/build
Check the .deb: 
$ debc | less
After having really tested it (dpkg -i, purge, etc.), optionally install it on any local apt-able websites you might have (Joost has one on http://mdcc.cx/debian/) and upload it to hibou's apt-able archive: 
$ scp lire_20010418-1_all.deb \
 hibou.logreport.org:/var/www/logreport.org/pub/debian/dists/local/contrib/binary-all/admin/

$ scp lire_20010418*.gz \
 hibou.logreport.org:/var/www/logreport.org/pub/debian/dists/local/contrib/source/admin/
$ scp lire_20010418*.*s* \
 hibou.logreport.org:/var/www/logreport.org/pub/debian/dists/local/contrib/source/admin/
Move the old debian stuff on hibou to hibou:/pub/archive/debian/ . Update the Packages file by running 
$ cd /var/www/logreport.org/pub/debian
$ make

To upload it to the official debian mirrors: 

vanbaal@gelfand:/usr...src/debian/lire/20010418% date; \
  dupload lire_20010418-1_i386.changes 
Thu Apr 19 14:27:38 CEST 2001
Uploading (ftp) to ftp.uk.debian.org:debian/UploadQueue/
[ job lire_20010418-1_i386 from lire_20010418-1_i386.changes New dpkg-dev, announcement will NOT be sent
 lire_20010418.orig.tar.gz, md5sum ok
 lire_20010418-1.diff.gz, md5sum ok
 lire_20010418-1_all.deb, md5sum ok
 lire_20010418-1.dsc, md5sum ok
 lire_20010418-1_i386.changes ok ]
Uploading (ftp) to uk (ftp.uk.debian.org)
 lire_20010418.orig.tar.gz 163.1 kB , ok (12 s, 13.59 kB/s)
 lire_20010418-1.diff.gz 32.6 kB , ok (3 s, 10.88 kB/s)
 lire_20010418-1_all.deb 222.4 kB , ok (16 s, 13.90 kB/s)
 lire_20010418-1.dsc 0.6 kB , ok (0 s, 0.60 kB/s)
 lire_20010418-1_i386.changes 1.2 kB , ok (1 s, 1.22 kB/s) ]
check ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/UploadQueue/