From 2013e82a89578f150b24b03e74cdff8d7675951f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Quentin Young Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 17:12:38 -0500 Subject: Revert "debian: Remove now obsolete tarsource.sh script" This reverts commit bc304e08ea48523b4c70d1d330eaefba3b6b7a6c. --- doc/developer/packaging-debian.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/developer') diff --git a/doc/developer/packaging-debian.rst b/doc/developer/packaging-debian.rst index da5c60d9a1..e643cf19d4 100644 --- a/doc/developer/packaging-debian.rst +++ b/doc/developer/packaging-debian.rst @@ -94,6 +94,12 @@ buster.) a manually maintained changelog that contains proper Debian release versioning. + Furthermore, official Debian packages are built in ``3.0 (quilt)`` format + with an "orig" tarball and a "debian" tarball. These tarballs are created + by the ``tarsource.sh`` tool on any branch. The git repository however + contains a ``3.0 (git)`` source format specifier to easily allow direct + git builds. + .. _multi-dist: @@ -102,6 +108,7 @@ Multi-Distribution builds You can optionally append a distribution identifier in case you want to make multiple versions of the package available in the same repository. +Do the following after creating the changelog with `tarsource.sh`: .. code-block:: shell -- cgit v1.2.3