Hello Craig, On 2/17/19, Craig Sanders via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote:
On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 10:55:52AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
2. run 'dch -i' to change the package version number. e.g. when dch starts up your text editor, change the first line to something like:
sane-backends (1.0.27-3.1~backport) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
The version number (inside the parentheses) is the only thing that needs to be changed on this line.
Note: i just tried this on my sid machine and dch aborted with some error about not finding the original source archive, and didn't change the version number for me. Don't know why, don't really care - it's a minor problem that can be ignored(*), and we're not rebuilding the source packages anyway.
About what I thought, dch worked, but would have preferred gedit or leafpad. That can be set up another time.
I just edited the changelog manually with 'vi debian/changelog' and changed the version number, then ran dpkg-buildpackage.
(*) OTOH, if it *had* prevented dpkg-buildpackage from successfully compiling the packages, it would have been a problem worth investigating and fixing. but it didn't and it wasn't, so i ignored it :)
5. install the packages you just built with:
dpkg -iBE *1.0.27-3.1~backport*.deb
This last step has to be done as root (e.g. with sudo, or in a root shell). everything else can be done as your normal, non-root user.
Expected, but looking like will also have to backport debhelper, libtiff5 and libtiffxx5 first, and anything else it needs. I did find the changes that are due to ripple through with the update from 9.7 to 9.8, and none of those are listed. I notice that noscript will be dropped as no longer compatible with the new firefox esr. I do not like that.
BTW, the file glob pattern matches only the packages you just built, just in case there are other .deb packages in the same dir.
Thank you for the reminder, is as I would expect.
craig
Regards, Mark Trickett