Re: Regarding: Debian: packaging updates.

Simon Richter [off-list ref] writes:

Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

Since you have debian.org e-mail address, perhaps you can feed
me patches to debian/ area and deb: rule in the main Makefile?

Sure. I have also talked this over with a few people and am going to 
make official uploads occasionally.

Simon, I've received a patch to do *.changes file from Carl
Baldwin, and with his permission I am forwarding it to you,
hoping that you could include it (or reject it with explanation
to Carl and me) when you feed me your debian/ updates.  Carl
says he wants to use dupload to populate his private apt-get
repository and the process wants the generated *.changes file.

Myself, I've been either installing with "dpkg -i" directly or
populating the apt-get repository by hand (yuck) but if dupload
is the preferred way to maintain private apt-get repository and
if having *.changes file helps that procedure, then...


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diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index bfdaf76..c1fcecb 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile

@@ -452,8 +452,7 @@ rpm: dist
 deb: dist
        rm -rf $(GIT_TARNAME)
        $(TAR) zxf $(GIT_TARNAME).tar.gz
-       dpkg-source -b $(GIT_TARNAME)
-       cd $(GIT_TARNAME) && fakeroot debian/rules binary
+       cd $(GIT_TARNAME) && dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc

 ### Cleaning rules

@@ -464,6 +463,7 @@ clean:
        rm -rf $(GIT_TARNAME)
        rm -f $(GIT_TARNAME).tar.gz git-core_$(GIT_VERSION)-*.tar.gz
        rm -f git-core_$(GIT_VERSION)-*.dsc
+       rm -f git-core_$(GIT_VERSION)-*.changes
        rm -f git-*_$(GIT_VERSION)-*.deb
        $(MAKE) -C Documentation/ clean
        $(MAKE) -C templates clean