第 5 章 基本内容

目录

5.1. 打包工作流
5.1.1. debhelper 软件包
5.2. 软件包名称和版本
5.3. 本土 Debian 软件包
5.4. debian/rules
5.4.1. dh
5.4.2. 简单的 debian/rules
5.4.3. 自定义 debian/rules
5.4.4. debian/rules 中的变量
5.4.5. 可重现的构建
5.5. debian/control
5.5.1. Split of a Debian binary package
5.5.1.1. debmake -b
5.5.1.2. 拆包的场景和例子
5.5.1.3. 库软件包名称
5.5.2. Substvar
5.5.3. binNMU 安全
5.6. debian/changelog
5.7. debian/copyright
5.8. debian/patches/*
5.8.1. dpkg-source -x
5.8.2. dquilt 和 dpkg-source
5.9. debian/upstream/signing-key.asc
5.10. debian/watch 和 DFSG
5.11. Other debian/* Files
5.12. Debian 打包的定制化
5.13. Recording in VCS (standard)
5.14. Recording in VCS (alternative)
5.15. Building package without extraneous contents
5.15.1. Fix by debian/rules clean
5.15.2. Fix using VCS
5.15.3. Fix by extend-diff-ignore
5.15.4. Fix by tar-ignore
5.16. 上游构建系统
5.16.1. Autotools
5.16.2. CMake
5.16.3. Python distutils
5.17. 调试信息
5.17.1. 新的 -dbgsym 软件包(Stretch 9.0 或更新)
5.17.2. 旧的 -dbg 软件包(Jessie 8.0 或更旧)
5.18. 库软件包
5.18.1. 库符号
5.18.2. 库变迁
5.19. 多体系结构
5.19.1. The multiarch library path
5.19.2. The multiarch header file path
5.19.3. The multiarch *.pc file path
5.20. 编译加固
5.21. debconf
5.22. 持续集成
5.23. Bootstrapping
5.24. Bug reports

A broad overview is presented here for the basic rules of Debian packaging focusing on the non-native Debian package in the “3.0 (quilt)” format.

[注意] 注意

为简明起见,某些细节被有意跳过。请按需查阅对应命令的手册页,例如dpkg-source(1)、dpkg-buildpackage(1)、dpkg(1)、dpkg-deb(1)、deb(5),等等。

Debian 源码包是一组用于构建 Debian 二进制软件包的输入文件,而非单个文件。

The Debian binary package is a special archive file which holds a set of installable binary data with its associated information.

单个 Debian 源码包可能根据 debian/control 文件定义的内容产生多个 Debian 二进制软件包。

使用 “3.0 (quilt)”格式的非本土 Debian 软件包是最普通的 Debian 源码包格式。

[注意] 注意

有许多封装脚本可用。合理使用它们可以帮助你理顺工作流程,但是请确保你能理解它们内部的基本工作原理。

The Debian packaging workflow to create a Debian binary package involves generating several specifically named files (see 第 5.2 节 “软件包名称和版本”) as defined in the “Debian Policy Manual”.

一个极其简化的 Debian 打包工作流可以概括为以下五步。

  1. 下载上游源码压缩包(tarball)并命名为 package-version.tar.gz 文件。
  2. 使上游提供的源码压缩包解压缩后的所有文件存储在 package-version/ 目录中。
  3. 上游的源码压缩包被复制(或符号链接)至一个特定的文件名 packagename_version.orig.tar.gz

    • 分隔 packageversion 的符号从 -(连字符)更改为 _(下划线)
    • 文件扩展名添加了 .orig 部分。
  4. Debian 软件包规范文件将被添加至上游源代码中,存放在 package-version/debian/ 目录下。

    • Required specification files under the debian/ directory:

      debian/rules
      构建 Debian 软件包所需的可执行脚本(参见 第 5.4 节 “debian/rules”
      debian/control
      The package configuration file containing the source package name, the source build dependencies, the binary package name, the binary dependencies, etc. (see 第 5.5 节 “debian/control”)
      debian/changelog
      Debian 软件包历史文件,其中第一行定义了上游软件包版本号和 Debian 修订版本号(参见 第 5.6 节 “debian/changelog”
      debian/copyright
      版权和许可证摘要信息(参看 第 5.7 节 “debian/copyright”
    • debian/* 下的可选配置文件(参见 第 5.11 节 “Other debian/* Files”):
    • package-version/ 目录中调用 debmake 命令将会提供这些配置文件的一套模板。

      • 必备的配置文件总会生成,无论是否提供 -x0 选项。
      • debmake 命令永远不会覆写任何已经存在的配置文件。
    • 这些文件必须手工编辑以达到理想状态。请使用“Debian 政策手册”和“Debian 开发者参考”作为编辑依据。
  5. dpkg-buildpackage 命令(通常由它的封装命令 debuildpdebuild 所使用)会在 package-version/ 目录中被调用,进而以调用 debian/rules 脚本的方式制作 Debian 源码包和二进制软件包。

    • 当前工作目录会被设为:$(CURDIR)=/path/to/package-version/
    • 使用 dpkg-source(1) 以“3.0 (quilt)”格式创建 Debian 源码包

      • package_version.orig.tar.gzpackage-version.tar.gz 的副本或符号链接)
      • package_version-revision.debian.tar.xzpackage-version/debian/* 的 tar 压缩包,即 tarball)
      • package_version-revision.dsc
    • 使用“debian/rules build”构建源代码并安装到 $(DESTDIR)

      • DESTDIR=debian/binarypackage/(单二进制包)
      • DESTDIR=debian/tmp/(多个二进制包)
    • 使用 dpkg-deb(1)、dpkg-genbuildinfo(1) 和 dpkg-genchanges(1) 创建 Debian 二进制软件包。

      • binarypackage_version-revision_arch.deb
      • ……(可能有多个 Debian 二进制包文件。)
      • package_version-revision_arch.changes
  6. 使用 lintian 命令检查 Debian 软件包的质量。(推荐)

  7. Sign the package_version-revision.dsc and package_version-revision_arch.changes files with the debsign command using your private GPG key.
  8. 使用 dput 命令向 Debian 仓库上传一套 Debian 源码包和二进制软件包文件。

这里,请将文件名中对应的部分使用下面的方式进行替换:

  • package 部分替换为 Debian 源码包名称
  • binarypackage 部分替换为 Debian 二进制软件包名称
  • version 部分替换为上游版本号
  • revision 部分替换为 Debian 修订号
  • arch 部分替换为软件包对应架构
[提示] 提示

有很多种通过实践摸索而得到的补丁管理方法和版本控制系统的使用策略与技巧。您没有必要将它们全部用上。

[提示] 提示

There is very extensive documentation in Chapter 6. Best Packaging Practices in the “Debian Developer’s Reference”. Please read it.

如果所获取上游源代码的形式为 hello-0.9.12.tar.gz,您可以将 hello 作为上游源代码名称,并将 0.9.12 作为上游版本号。

debmake 的目的是为软件包维护者提供开始工作的模板文件。注释行以 # 开始,其中包含一些教程性文字。您在将软件包上传至 Debian 仓库之前必须删除或者修改这样的注释行。

The license extraction and assignment process involves a lot of heuristics; it may fail in some cases. It is highly recommended to use other tools such as licensecheck from the devscripts package in conjunction with debmake.

There are some limitations for what characters may be used as a part of the Debian package. The most notable limitation is the prohibition of uppercase letters in the package name. Here is a summary as a set of regular expressions:

  • 上游软件包名称(-p):[-+.a-z0-9]{2,}
  • 二进制软件包名称(-b):[-+.a-z0-9]{2,}
  • 上游版本号(-u):[0-9][-+.:~a-z0-9A-Z]*
  • Debian 修订版本(-r): [0-9][+.~a-z0-9A-Z]*

See the exact definition in Chapter 5 - Control files and their fields in the “Debian Policy Manual”.

debmake 所假设的打包情景是相对简单的。因此,所有与解释器相关的程序都会默认为“Architecture: all”的情况。当然,这个假设并非总是成立。

您必须为 Debian 打包工作适当地调整软件包名称和上游版本号。

为了能有效地使用一些流行的工具(如 aptitude)管理软件包名称和版本信息,最好能将软件包名称保持在 30 字符以下;版本号和修订号加起来最好能不超过 14 个字符。[10]

为了避免命名冲突,对用户可见的二进制软件包名称不应选择任何常用的单词。

If upstream does not use a normal versioning scheme such as 2.30.32 but uses some kind of date such as 11Apr29, a random codename string, or a VCS hash value as part of the version, make sure to remove them from the upstream version. Such information can be recorded in the debian/changelog file. If you need to invent a version string, use the YYYYMMDD format such as 20110429 as upstream version. This ensures that the dpkg command interprets later versions correctly as upgrades. If you need to ensure a smooth transition to a normal version scheme such as 0.1 in the future, use the 0~YYMMDD format such as 0~110429 as upstream version, instead.

版本字符串可以按如下的方式使用 dpkg 命令进行比较。

$ dpkg --compare-versions ver1 op ver2

版本比较的规则可以归纳如下:

  • 字符串按照起始到末尾的顺序进行比较。
  • 字符比数字大。
  • 数字按照整数顺序进行比较。
  • 字符按照 ASCII 编码的顺序进行比较。

对于某些字符,如句点(.)、加号(+)和波浪号(~),有如下的特殊规则。

0.0 < 0.5 < 0.10 < 0.99 < 1 < 1.0~rc1 < 1.0 < 1.0+b1 < 1.0+nmu1 < 1.1 < 2.0

有一个稍需注意的情况,即当上游将 hello-0.9.12-ReleaseCandidate-99.tar.gz 这样的版本当作预发布版本,而将 hello-0.9.12.tar.gz 作为正式版本时。为了确保 Debian 软件包升级能够顺畅进行,您应当修改版本号命名,如将上游源代码压缩包重命名为 hello-0.9.12~rc99.tar.gz

使用“3.0 (quilt)”格式的非本土 Debian 软件包是最常见最标准的 Debian 源码包格式。根据 dpkg-source(1) 的描述,此时的 debian/source/format 文件应当包含“3.0 (quilt) 的文字内容。上述的工作流和接下来给出的打包示例都使用了这种格式。

A native Debian package is the rare Debian binary package format. It may be used only when the package is useful and valuable only for Debian. Thus, its use is generally discouraged.

[小心] 小心

A native Debian package is often accidentally built when its upstream tarball is not accessible from the dpkg-buildpackage command with its correct name package_version.orig.tar.gz . This is a typical newbie mistake caused by making a symlink name with “-” instead of the correct one with “_”.

A native Debian package has no separation between the upstream code and the Debian changes and consists only of the following:

  • package_version.tar.gzpackage-version.tar.gz 文件的副本或符号链接,包含 debian/* 的各个文件。)
  • package_version.dsc

If you need to create a native Debian package, create it in the “3.0 (native)” format using dpkg-source(1).

[提示] 提示

Some people promote packaging even programs that have been written only for Debian in the non-native package format. The required tarball without debian/* files needs to be manually generated in advance before the standard workflow in 第 5.1 节 “打包工作流”. [11] They claim that the use of non-native package format eases communication with the downstream distributions.

[提示] 提示

如果使用本土软件包格式,没有必要事先创建 tarball 压缩包。要创建一个本土 Debian 软件包,应当将 debian/source/format 文件的内容设置为“3.0 (native)”,适当编写 debian/changelog 文件使得版本号中不包含 Debian 修订号(例如,1.0 而非 1.0-1),最后在源码树中调用“dpkg-source -b .”命令。这样做便可以自动生成包含源代码的 tarball。

debian/rules 脚本是用于实际构建 Debian 软件包的可执行脚本。

  • debian/rules 脚本重新封装了上游的构建系统(参见 第 5.16 节 “上游构建系统”)以达到将文件安装至 $(DESTDIR)并将生成的文件存入各个 deb 格式文件中的目的。

    • 这里的 deb 文件用于二进制的文件分发,并将被 dpkg 命令所使用以将软件安装至系统中。
  • dh 命令通常在 debian/rules 脚本中使用,用作构建系统的一个前端。
  • $(DESTDIR) 路径具体值依赖于构建的类型。

    • $(DESTDIR)=debian/binarypackage(单个二进制软件包)
    • $(DESTDIR)=debian/tmp(多个二进制软件包)

受益于 dh 命令对构建目标的抽象化 [12],一个符合 Debian 政策而支持所有必需目标(target)的 debian/rules 文件可以简单地写成如下形式[13]

简单的 debian/rules:. 

#!/usr/bin/make -f
#export DH_VERBOSE = 1

%:
        dh $@

从本质上来看,这里的 dh 命令的作用是作为一个序列化工具,在合适的时候调用所有所需的 dh_* 命令。

[注意] 注意

debmake 命令会在 debian/control 文件中写入“Build-Depends: debhelper (>=9)”,并在 debian/compat 文件中写入“9”。

[提示] 提示

设置“export DH_VERBOSE = 1”会输出构建系统中每一条会修改文件内容的命令。它同时会在某些构建系统中启用详细输出构建日志的选项。

通过添加合适的 override_dh_* 目标(target)并编写对应的规则,可以实现对 debian/rules 脚本的灵活定制。

如果需要在 dh 命令调用某些特定的 dh_foo 命令时采取某些特别的操作,则任何自动执行的操作均可以被 debian/rules 中额外添加的 override_dh_foo 这样的 Makefile 目标所覆写。

The build process may be customized via the upstream provided interface such as arguments to the standard source build system commands, such as:

  • configure
  • Makefile
  • setup.py,或
  • Build.PL

If this is the case, you should add the override_dh_auto_build target and executing the “dh_auto_build -- arguments” command. This ensures passing arguments to the such build system after the default parameters that dh_auto_build usually passes.

[提示] 提示

Please try not to execute the above build system commands directly if they are supported by the dh_auto_build command.

The debmake command creates the initial template file taking advantage of the above simple debian/rules file example while adding some extra customizations for package hardening, etc. You need to know how underlying build systems work under the hood (see 第 5.16 节 “上游构建系统”) to address their irregularities using package customization.

某些对自定义 debian/rules 有用的变量定义可以在 /usr/share/dpkg/ 目录下的文件中找到。比较重要的包括:

pkg-info.mk
DEB_SOURCE, DEB_VERSION, DEB_VERSION_EPOCH_UPSTREAM, DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM_REVISION, DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM, and DEB_DISTRIBUTION variables. These are useful for backport support etc..
vendor.mk
DEB_VENDOR and DEB_PARENT_VENDOR variables; and dpkg_vendor_derives_from macro. These are useful for vendor support (Debian, Ubuntu, …).
architecture.mk
Set DEB_HOST_* and DEB_BUILD_* variables. An alternative method of retrieving those variables is to invoke dpkg-architecture directly and query the value of a single variable. With explicit invocation of dpkg-architecture to retrieve necessary variables, there is no need to include architecture.mk in debian/rules, which would import all architecture-related variables.
buildflags.mk
设置 CFLAGSCPPFLAGSCXXFLAGSOBJCFLAGSOBJCXXFLAGSGCJFLAGSFFLAGSFCFLAGSLDFLAGS 这些构建标志(build flags)。

If you wish to use some of these useful variables in debian/rules, copy relevant code to debian/rules or write a simpler alternative in it. Please keep debian/rules simple.

例如,您按如下的方法在 debian/rules 文件中添加内容,从而为 linux-any 目标架构添加额外的 CONFIGURE_FLAGS

DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH_OS)
 ...
ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS),linux)
CONFIGURE_FLAGS += --enable-wayland
endif
[提示] 提示

It was useful to include buildflags.mk in debian/rules to set the build flags such as CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, etc. properly while honoring DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND, DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS, etc. for the debhelper “compat <= 8”. Now you should use the debhelper “compat >= 9”, should not include buildflags.mk without specific reasons, and should let the dh command set these build flags.

参见 第 5.19 节 “多体系结构”dpkg-architecture(1) 和 dpkg-buildflags(1)。

Here are some recommendations to attain a reproducible build result.

dpkg-genbuildinfo(1) 生成的控制文件 source-name_source-version_arch.buildinfo 记录了构建环境信息。参见 deb-buildinfo(5)

The debian/control file consists of blocks of meta data separated by a blank line. Each block of meta data defines the following in this order:

  • Debian 源码包的元信息
  • Debian 二进制软件包的元信息

参见“Debian 政策手册”中的 第 5 章 - Control 文件及其字段 一章以了解每块元信息的具体定义。

For well behaving build systems, the split of a Debian binary package into small ones can be realized as follows.

  • 为所有二进制软件包在 debian/control 文件中创建对应的二进制软件包条目。
  • 在对应的 debian/二进制软件包名.install 文件中列出所有文件的路径(相对于 debian/tmp 目录)。

请查看本指南中相关的例子:

The debmake command with the -b option provides an intuitive and flexible method to create the initial template debian/control file defining the split of the Debian binary packages with following stanzas:

  • Package:
  • Architecture:
  • Multi-Arch:
  • Depends:
  • Pre-Depends:

The debmake command also sets an appropriate set of substvars used in each pertinent dependency stanza.

我们在这里直接引用 debmake 手册页中的相关一部分内容。

-b "二进制软件包名[:type],…", --binaryspec "二进制软件包名[:type],…"

set the binary package specs by a comma separated list of binarypackage:type pairs, e.g., in the full form “foo:bin,foo-doc:doc,libfoo1:lib,libfoo1-dbg:dbg,libfoo-dev:dev” or in the short form, “-doc,libfoo1,libfoo1-dbg, libfoo-dev”.

Here, binarypackage is the binary package name, and the optional type is chosen from the following type values:

  • bin: C/C++ compiled ELF binary code package (any, foreign) (default, alias: "", i.e., null-string)
  • data: Data (fonts, graphics, …) package (all, foreign) (alias: da)
  • dbg: Debug symbol package (any, same) (alias: db) (deprecated for stretch and after since the -dbgsym package is automatically generated)
  • dev: Library development package (any, same) (alias: de)
  • doc: Documentation package (all, foreign) (alias: do)
  • lib: Library package (any, same) (alias: l)
  • perl: Perl script package (all, foreign) (alias: pl)
  • python: Python script package (all, foreign) (alias: py)
  • python3: Python3 script package (all, foreign) (alias: py3)
  • ruby: Ruby script package (all, foreign) (alias: rb)
  • script: Shell script package (all, foreign) (alias: sh)

The pair values in the parentheses, such as (any, foreign), are the Architecture and Multi-Arch stanza values set in the debian/control file.

In many cases, the debmake command makes good guesses for type from binarypackage. If type is not obvious, type is set to bin. For example, libfoo sets type to lib, and font-bar sets type to data, …

If the source tree contents do not match settings for type, the debmake command warns you.

Let’s consider that the upstream source tarball of the libfoo library is updated from libfoo-7.0.tar.gz to libfoo-8.0.tar.gz with a new SONAME major version which affects other packages.

The binary library package must be renamed from libfoo7 to libfoo8 to keep the unstable suite system working for all dependent packages after the upload of the package based on the libfoo-8.0.tar.gz.

[警告] 警告

If the binary library package isn’t renamed, many dependent packages in the unstable suite become broken just after the library upload even if a binNMU upload is requested. The binNMU may not happen immediately after the upload due to several reasons.

The -dev package must follow one of the following naming rules:

[提示] 提示

If the data encoding scheme changes (e.g., latin1 to utf-8), the same care as the API change needs to be taken.

参见 第 5.18 节 “库软件包”

The debian/control file also defines the package dependency in which the variable substitutions mechanism (substvar) may be used to free package maintainers from chores of tracking most of the simple package dependency cases. See deb-substvars(5).

The debmake command supports the following substvars:

  • ${misc:Depends} for all binary packages
  • ${misc:Pre-Depends} for all multiarch packages
  • ${shlibs:Depends} for all binary executable and library packages
  • ${python:Depends} for all Python packages
  • ${python3:Depends} for all Python3 packages
  • ${perl:Depends} for all Perl packages
  • ${ruby:Depends} for all Ruby packages

For the shared library, required libraries found simply by "objdump -p /path/to/program | grep NEEDED" are covered by the shlib substvar.

For Python and other interpreters, required modules found simply looking for lines with “import”, “use”, “require”, etc., are covered by the corresponding substvars.

For other programs which do not deploy their own substvars, the misc substvar covers their dependency.

对 POSIX shell 程序来说,并没有简单的办法来验证其依赖关系,substvar 的变量替换也无法自动得出它们的依赖。

For libraries and modules required via the dynamic loading mechanism including the GObject introspection mechanism, there is no easy way to identify the dependency and no substvar covers their dependency.

A binNMU is a binary-only non-maintainer upload performed for library transitions etc. In a binNMU upload, only the “Architecture: any” packages are rebuilt with a suffixed version number (e.g. version 2.3.4-3 will become 2.3.4-3+b1). The “Architecture: all” packages are not built.

The dependency defined in the debian/control file among binary packages from the same source package should be safe for the binNMU. This needs attention if there are both “Architecture: any” and “Architecture: all” packages involved in it.

  • Architecture: any” package: depends on “Architecture: anyfoo package

    • Depends: foo (= ${binary:Version})
  • Architecture: any” package: depends on “Architecture: allbar package

    • Depends: bar (= ${source:Version}
  • Architecture: all” package: depends on “Architecture: anybaz package

    • Depends: baz (>= ${source:Version}), baz (<< ${source:Upstream-Version}.0~)

debian/changelog 文件记录了 Debian 软件包的历史并在其第一行定义了上游软件包的版本和 Debian 修订版本。所有改变的内容应当以明确、正式而简明的语言风格进行记录。

  • Even if you are uploading your package by yourself, you must document all non-trivial user-visible changes such as:

    • the security related bug fixes.
    • the user interface changes.
  • If you are asking your sponsor to upload it, you should document changes more comprehensively, including all packaging related ones, to help reviewing your package.

    • The sponsor shouldn’t second guess your thought behind your package.
    • The sponsor’s time is more valuable than yours.

The debmake command creates the initial template file with the upstream package version and the Debian revision. The distribution is set to UNRELEASED to prevent accidental upload to the Debian archive.

The debchange command (alias dch) is commonly used to edit this.

[提示] 提示

You can edit the debian/changelog file manually with any text editor as long as you follow the formatting convention used by the debchange command.

[提示] 提示

The date string used in the debian/changelog file can be manually generated by the “LC_ALL=C date -R” command.

This is installed in the /usr/share/doc/binarypackage directory as changelog.Debian.gz by the dh_installchangelogs command.

The upstream changelog is installed in the /usr/share/doc/binarypackage directory as changelog.gz.

The upstream changelog is automatically found by the dh_installchangelogs using the case insensitive match of its file name to changelog, changes, changelog.txt, changes.txt, history, history.txt, or changelog.md and searched in the ./ doc/ or docs/ directories.

After finishing your packaging and verifying its quality, please execute the “dch -r” command and save the finalized debian/changelog file with the distribution normally set to unstable. [14] If you are packaging for backports, security updates, LTS, etc., please use the appropriate distribution names instead.

Debian takes the copyright and license matters very seriously. The “Debian Policy Manual” enforces having a summary of them in the debian/copyright file in the package.

You should format it as a machine-readable debian/copyright file (DEP-5).

[小心] 小心

The debian/copyright file should be sorted to keep the generic file patterns at the top of the list. See 第 6.4 节 “debmake -k”.

The debmake command creates the initial DEP-5 compatible template file by scanning the entire source tree. It uses an internal license checker to classify each license text. [15]

Unless specifically requested to be pedantic with the -P option, the debmake command skips reporting for auto-generated files with permissive licenses to be practical.

[注意] 注意

If you find issues with this license checker, please file a bug report to the debmake package with the problematic part of text containing the copyright and license.

[注意] 注意

The debmake command focuses on bunching up same copyright and license claims in detail to create template for debian/copyright. In order to do this within reasonable time, it only picks the first section which looks like copyright and license claims. So its license assignment may not be optimal. Please also use other tools such as licensecheck.

[提示] 提示

You are highly encouraged to check the license status with the licensecheck(1) command and, as needed, with your manual code review.

The -p1 patches in the debian/patches/ directory are applied in the sequence defined in the debian/patches/series file to the upstream source tree before the build process.

[注意] 注意

The native Debian package (see 第 5.3 节 “本土 Debian 软件包”) doesn’t use these files.

There are several methods to prepare a series of -p1 patches.

  • The diff command

    • 参见 第 4.8.1 节 “使用 diff -u 处理补丁”
    • Primitive but versatile method

      • Patches may come from other distros, mailing list postings, or cherry-picked patches from the upstream git repository with the “git format-patches” command
    • Missing the .pc/ directory
    • Unmodified upstream source tree
    • Manually update the debian/patches/series file
  • The dquilt command

    • See 第 3.4 节 “quilt”
    • Basic convenient method
    • Proper generation of the .pc/ directory data
    • Modified upstream source tree
  • The “dpkg-source --commit” command

  • The automatic patch generation by the dpkg-buildpackage

  • The gbp-pq command

    • basic git work flow with the git-buildpackage package
    • Missing the .pc/ directory
    • Modified upstream source tree in the throw-away branch (patch-queue/master)
    • Unmodified upstream source tree in the Debian branch (master)
  • The gbp-dpm command

    • more elaborate git work flow with the git-dpm package
    • Missing the .pc/ directory
    • Modified upstream source tree in the patched branch (patched/whatever)
    • Unmodified upstream source tree in the Debian branch (master/whatever)

Wherever these patches come from, it is a good idea to tag them with a DEP-3 compatible header.

[提示] 提示

The dgit package offers an alternative git integration tool with the Debian package archive.

The quilt command (or its wrapped dquilt command) was needed to manage the -p1 patches in the debian/patches/ directory before the --commit feature was added to the dpkg-source command in 1.16.1.

The patches should apply cleanly when using the dpkg-source command. Thus you can’t just copy the patches to the new packaging of the new upstream release if there are patch offsets, etc.

The dquilt command (see 第 3.4 节 “quilt”) is more forgiving. You can normalize the patches by the dquilt command.

 $ while dquilt push; do dquilt refresh ; done
 $ dquilt pop -a

There is one advantage of using the dpkg-source command over the dquilt command. While the dquilt command cannot handle modified binary files automatically, the dpkg-source command detects modified binary files and lists them in the debian/source/include-binaries file to include them in the Debian tarball.

Some packages are signed by a GPG key.

For example, GNU hello can be downloaded via HTTP from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hello/ . There are sets of files:

  • hello-version.tar.gz (upstream source)
  • hello-version.tar.gz.sig (detached signature)

Let’s pick the latest version set.

$ wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hello/hello-2.9.tar.gz
 ...
$ wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hello/hello-2.9.tar.gz.sig
 ...
$ gpg --verify hello-2.9.tar.gz.sig
gpg: Signature made Thu 10 Oct 2013 08:49:23 AM JST using DSA key ID 80EE4A00
gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found

If you know the public GPG key of the upstream maintainer from the mailing list, use it as the debian/upstream/signing-key.asc file. Otherwise, use the hkp keyserver and check it via your web of trust.

$ gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-key 80EE4A00
gpg: requesting key 80EE4A00 from hkp server keys.gnupg.net
gpg: key 80EE4A00: public key "Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>" imported
gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1
$ gpg --verify hello-2.9.tar.gz.sig
gpg: Signature made Thu 10 Oct 2013 08:49:23 AM JST using DSA key ID 80EE4A00
gpg: Good signature from "Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>"
  ...
Primary key fingerprint: 9297 8852 A62F A5E2 85B2  A174 6808 9F73 80EE 4A00
[提示] 提示

If your network environment blocks access to the HPK port 11371, use “hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80” instead.

After confirming the key ID 80EE4A00 is a trustworthy one, download its public key into the debian/upstream/signing-key.asc file.

$ gpg --armor --export 80EE4A00 >debian/upstream/signing-key.asc

Then set the corresponding debian/watch file as follows.

version=4
pgpsigurlmangle=s/$/.sig/  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hello/ hello-(\d[\d.]*)\.tar\.(?:gz|bz2|xz)

Now the uscan command will check the authenticity of the package using the GPG signature.

Debian takes software freedom seriously and follows the DFSG.

The non-DFSG components in the upstream source tarball can be easily removed when the uscan command is used to update the Debian package.

  • List the files to be removed in the Files-Excluded stanza of the debian/copyright file.
  • List the URL to download the upstream tarball in the debian/watch file.
  • Run the uscan command to download the new upstream tarball.

    • Alternatively, use the “gbp import-orig --uscan --pristine-tar” command.
  • The resulting tarball has the version number with an additional suffix +dfsg.

Optional configuration files may be added under the debian/ directory. Most of them are to control dh_* commands offered by the debhelper package but there are some for dpkg-source, lintian and gbp commands.

The "-x[1234]" superscript notation that appears in the following list indicates the minimum value for the debmake -x option that will generate the associated template file. See debmake(1) for details.

[提示] 提示

Check debhelper(7) for the latest available set of the dh_* commands.

These debian/binarypackage.* files provide very powerful means to set the installation path of files. Even an upstream source without its build system can be packaged just by using these files. See 第 8.2 节 “No Makefile (shell, CLI)” as an example.

Here is the alphabetical list of notable optional configuration files.

binarypackage.bug-control -x3
installed as usr/share/bug/binarypackage/control in binarypackage. See 第 5.24 节 “Bug reports”.
binarypackage.bug-presubj -x3
installed as usr/share/bug/binarypackage/presubj in binarypackage. See 第 5.24 节 “Bug reports”.
binarypackage.bug-script -x3
installed as usr/share/bug/binarypackage or usr/share/bug/binarypackage/script in binarypackage. See 第 5.24 节 “Bug reports”.
binarypackage.bash-completion

List bash completion scripts to be installed.

The bash-completion package is required for both build and user environments.

See dh_bash-completion(1).

clean -x2

List files that should be removed but are not cleaned by the dh_auto_clean command.

See dh_auto_clean(1) and dh_clean(1).

compat -x1

Set the debhelper compatibility level (currently, “9”).

See “COMPATIBILITY LEVELS” in debhelper(8).

binarypackage.conffile

No need for this file under “compat >= 3” since all files in the etc/ directory are conffiles.

If the program you’re packaging requires every user to modify the configuration files in the /etc directory, there are two popular ways to arrange for them not to be conffiles, keeping the dpkg command happy and quiet.

  • Create a symlink under the /etc directory pointing to a file under the /var directory generated by the maintainer scripts.
  • Create a file generated by the maintainer scripts under the /etc directory.

See dh_installdeb(1).

binarypackage.config
This is the debconf config script used for asking any questions necessary to configure the package. See 第 5.21 节 “debconf”.
binarypackage.cron.hourly -x3

Installed into the etc/cron/hourly/binarypackage file in binarypackage.

See dh_installcron(1) and cron(8).

binarypackage.cron.daily -x3

Installed into the etc/cron/daily/binarypackage file in binarypackage.

See dh_installcron(1) and cron(8).

binarypackage.cron.weekly -x3

Installed into the etc/cron/weekly/binarypackage file in binarypackage.

See dh_installcron(1) and cron(8).

binarypackage.cron.monthly -x3

Installed into the etc/cron/monthly/binarypackage file in binarypackage.

See dh_installcro*(1) and cron(8).

binarypackage.cron.d -x3

Installed into the etc/cron.d/binarypackage file in binarypackage.

See dh_installcron(1), cron(8), and crontab(5).

binarypackage.default -x3

If this exists, it is installed into etc/default/binarypackage in binarypackage.

参见 dh_installinit(1)。

binarypackage.dirs -x3

List directories to be created in binarypackage.

See dh_installdirs(1).

Usually, this is not needed since all dh_install* commands create required directories automatically. Use this only when you run into trouble.

binarypackage.doc-base -x2

Installed as the doc-base control file in binarypackage.

See dh_installdocs(1) and Debian doc-base Manual provided by the doc-base package.

binarypackage.docs -x2

List documentation files to be installed in binarypackage.

参见 dh_installdocs(1)。

binarypackage.emacsen-compat -x3

Installed into usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/compat/binarypackage in binarypackage.

参见 dh_installemacsen(1)。

binarypackage.emacsen-install -x3

Installed into usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/binarypackage in binarypackage.

参见 dh_installemacsen(1)。

binarypackage.emacsen-remove -x3

Installed into usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/remove/binarypackage in binarypackage.

参见 dh_installemacsen(1)。

binarypackage.emacsen-startup -x3

Installed into usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/startup/binarypackage in binarypackage.

参见 dh_installemacsen(1)。

binarypackage.examples -x2

List example files or directories to be installed into usr/share/doc/binarypackage/examples/ in binarypackage.

See dh_installexamples(1).

gbp.conf

If this exists, it functions as the configuration file for the gbp command.

See gbp.conf(5), gbp(1), and git-buildpackage(1).

binarypackage.info -x2

List info files to be installed in binarypackage.

See dh_installinfo(1).

binarypackage.init -x3

Installed into etc/init.d/binarypackage in binarypackage.

参见 dh_installinit(1)。

binarypackage.install -x2

List files which should be installed but are not installed by the dh_auto_install command.

See dh_install(1) and dh_auto_install(1).

license-examples/* -x4

These are copyright file examples generated by the debmake command. Use these as the reference for making the copyright file.

Please make sure to erase these files.

binarypackage.links -x2

List pairs of source and destination files to be symlinked. Each pair should be put on its own line, with the source and destination separated by whitespace.

See dh_link(1).

binarypackage.lintian-overrides -x3

Installed into usr/share/lintian/overrides/binarypackage in the package build directory. This file is used to suppress erroneous lintian diagnostics.

See dh_lintian(1), lintian(1) and Lintian User’s Manual.

manpage.* -x3

These are manpage template files generated by the debmake command. Please rename these to appropriate file names and update their contents.

Debian Policy requires that each program, utility, and function should have an associated manual page included in the same package. Manual pages are written in nroff(1).

If you are new to making a manpage, use manpage.asciidoc or manpage.1 as the starting point.

binarypackage.manpages -x2

List man pages to be installed.

See dh_installman(1).

binarypackage.menu (deprecated, no more installed)

tech-ctte #741573 decided "Debian should use .desktop files as appropriate".

Debian menu file installed into usr/share/menu/binarypackage in binarypackage.

See menufile(5) for its format. See dh_installmenu(1).

NEWS

Installed into usr/share/doc/binarypackage/NEWS.Debian.

See dh_installchangelogs(1).

patches/*

Collection of -p1 patch files which are applied to the upstream source before building the source.

See dpkg-source(1), 第 3.4 节 “quilt” and 第 4.8 节 “第三步(备选):修改上游源代码”.

No patch files are generated by the debmake command.

patches/series -x1
The application sequence of the patches/* patch files.
binarypackage.preinst -x2 , binarypackage.postinst -x2 , binarypackage.prerm -x2 , binarypackage.postrm -x2

These maintainer scripts are installed into the DEBIAN directory.

Inside the scripts, the token #DEBHELPER# is replaced with shell script snippets generated by other debhelper commands.

See dh_installdeb(1) and Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts and installation procedure in the “Debian Policy Manual”.

See also debconf-devel(7) and 3.9.1 Prompting in maintainer scripts in the “Debian Policy Manual”.

README.Debian -x1

Installed into the first binary package listed in the debian/control file as usr/share/doc/binarypackage/README.Debian.

参见 dh_installdocs(1)。

This file provides the information specific to the Debian package.

binarypackage.service -x3

If this exists, it is installed into lib/systemd/system/binarypackage.service in binarypackage.

See dh_systemd_enable(1), dh_systemd_start(1), and dh_installinit(1).

source/format -x1

The Debian package format.

  • Use “3.0 (quilt)” to make this non-native package (recommended)
  • Use “3.0 (native)” to make this native package

See “SOURCE PACKAGE FORMATS” in dpkg-source(1).

source/lintian-overrides or source.lintian-overrides -x3

These files are not installed, but will be scanned by the lintian command to provide overrides for the source package.

See dh_lintian(1) and lintian(1).

source/local-options -x1

The dpkg-source command uses this content as its options. Notable options are:

  • unapply-patches
  • abort-on-upstream-changes
  • auto-commit
  • single-debian-patch

This is not included in the generated source package and is meant to be committed to the VCS of the maintainer.

See “FILE FORMATS” in dpkg-source(1).

source/local-patch-header

Free form text that is put on top of the automatic patch generated.

This is not included in the generated source package and is meant to be committed to the VCS of the maintainer.

+ See “FILE FORMATS” in dpkg-source(1).

binarypackage.symbols -x2

The symbols files, if present, are passed to the dpkg-gensymbols command to be processed and installed.

See dh_makeshlibs(1) and 第 5.18.1 节 “库符号”..

binarypackage.templates
This is the debconf templates file used for asking any questions necessary to configure the package. See 第 5.21 节 “debconf”.
tests/control
This is the RFC822-style test meta data file defined in DEP-8. See autopkgtest(1) and 第 5.22 节 “持续集成”.
TODO

Installed into the first binary package listed in the debian/control file as usr/share/doc/binarypackage/TODO.Debian.

参见 dh_installdocs(1)。

binarypackage.tmpfile -x3

If this exists, it is installed into usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/binarypackage.conf in binarypackage.

See dh_systemd_enable(1), dh_systemd_start(1), and dh_installinit(1).

binarypackage.upstart -x3

If this exists, it is installed into etc/init/package.conf in the package build directory. (deprecated)

See dh_installinit(1) and 第 8.1 节 “Cherry-pick templates”.

watch -x1

The control file for the uscan command to download the latest upstream version.

This control file may be configured to verify the authenticity of the tarball using its GPG signature (see 第 5.9 节 “debian/upstream/signing-key.asc”).

See 第 5.10 节 “debian/watch 和 DFSG” and uscan(1).

Here are a few reminders for the above list.

  • For a single binary package, the binarypackage. part of the filename in the list may be removed.
  • For a multi binary package, a configuration file missing the binarypackage. part of the filename is applied to the first binary package listed in the debian/control.
  • When there are many binary packages, their configurations can be specified independently by prefixing their name to their configuration filenames such as package-1.install, package-2.install, etc.
  • Configuration template filenames with -x1, -x2, -x3, or -x4 in the above list mean that they are generated by the debmake command with that -x option (see 第 6.6 节 “debmake -x”).
  • Some template configuration files may not be created by the debmake command. In such cases, you need to create them with an editor.
  • Unusual configuration template files generated by the debmake command with an extra .ex suffix need to be activated by removing that suffix.
  • Unused configuration template files generated by the debmake command should be removed.
  • Copy configuration template files as needed to the filenames matching their pertinent binary package names.

Let’s recap the customization of the Debian packaging.

All customization data for the Debian package resides in the debian/ directory. A simple example is given in 第 4.6 节 “第三步:编辑模板文件”. Normally, this customization involves a combination of the following:

When these are not sufficient to make a good Debian package, modifications to the upstream source recorded as the -p1 patches in the debian/patches/ directory is deployed. These patches are applied in the sequence defined in the debian/patches/series file before building the package (see 第 5.8 节 “debian/patches/*”). Simple examples are given in 第 4.8 节 “第三步(备选):修改上游源代码”.

You should address the root cause of the Debian packaging problem by the least invasive way. The generated package shall be more robust for future upgrades in this way.

[注意] 注意

Send the patch addressing the root cause to the upstream maintainer if it is useful to the upstream.

Typically, Git is used as the VCS to record the Debian packaging activity with the following branches.

  • master branch

    • Record the source tree used for the Debian packaging.
    • The upstream portion of the source tree is recorded unmodified.
    • The upstream modifications for the Debian packaging are recorded in the debian/patches/ directory as the -p1 patches.
  • upstream branch

    • Record the upstream source tree untarred from the released upstream tarball.
[提示] 提示

It’s a good idea to add to the .gitignore file the listing .pc.

[提示] 提示

Add unapply-patches and abort-on-upstream-changes lines to the debian/source/local-options file to keep the upstream portion unmodified.

[提示] 提示

You may also track the upstream VCS data with a branch different from the upstream branch to ease cherry-picking of patches.

You may not wish to keep up with creating the -p1 patch files for all upstream changes needed. You can record the Debian packaging activity with the following branches.

  • master branch

    • Record the source tree used for the Debian packaging.
    • The upstream portion of the source tree is recorded with modifications for the Debian packaging.
  • upstream branch

    • Record the upstream source tree untarred from the released upstream tarball.

Adding a few extra files in the debian/ directory enables you to do this.

 $ tar -xvzf <package-version>.tar.gz
 $ ln -sf <package_version>.orig.tar.gz
 $ cd <package-version>/
 ... hack...hack...
 $ echo "single-debian-patch" >> debian/source/local-options
 $ cat >debian/source/local-patch-header <<END
 This patch contains all the Debian-specific changes mixed
 together. To review them separately, please inspect the VCS
 history at https://git.debian.org/?=collab-maint/foo.git.

Let the dpkg-source command invoked by the Debian package build process (dpkg-buildpackage, debuild, …) generate the -p1 patch file debian/patches/debian-changes automatically.

[提示] 提示

This approach can be adopted for any VCS tools. Since this approach merges all changes into a merged patch, it is desirable to keep the VCS data publicly accessible.

[提示] 提示

debian/source/local-optionsdebian/source/local-patch-header 文件只用于在版本控制系统中记录信息。它们不应包含在 Debian 源码包中。

There are a few cases which cause the inclusion of undesirable contents in the generated Debian source package.

  • The upstream source tree may be placed under the version control system. When the package is rebuilt from this source tree, the generated Debian source package contains extraneous contents from the version control system files.
  • The upstream source tree may contain some auto-generated files. When the package is rebuilt from this source tree, the generated Debian source package contains extraneous contents from the auto-generated files.

Normally, the -i and -I options set in 第 3.5 节 “devscripts” for the dpkg-source command should avoid these. Here, the -i option is aimed at the non-native package while the -I is aimed at the native package. See dpkg-source(1) and the “dpkg-source --help” output.

There are several methods to avoid inclusion of undesirable contents.

Upstream build systems are designed to go through several steps to install generated binary files to the system from the source distribution.

The Debian package is built with the debugging information but packaged into the binary package after stripping the debugging information as required by Chapter 10 - Files of the “Debian Policy Manual”.

See

Packaging library software requires you to perform much more work than usual. Here are some reminders for packaging library software:

Before packaging shared library software, see:

如需研究其历史背景,请参见:

The symbols support in dpkg introduced in Debian lenny (5.0, May 2009) helps us to manage the backward ABI compatibility of the library package with the same package name. The DEBIAN/symbols file in the binary package provides the minimal version associated with each symbol.

An oversimplified method for the library packaging is as follows.

  • Extract the old DEBIAN/symbols file of the immediate previous binary package with the “dpkg-deb -e” command.

    • Alternatively, the mc command may be used to extract the DEBIAN/symbols file.
  • Copy it to the debian/binarypackage.symbols file.

    • If this is the first package, use an empty content file instead.
  • Build the binary package.

    • If the dpkg-gensymbols command warns about some new symbols:

      • Extract the updated DEBIAN/symbols file with the “dpkg-deb -e” command.
      • Trim the Debian revision such as -1 in it.
      • Copy it to the debian/binarypackage.symbols file.
      • 重新构建二进制软件包。
    • If the dpkg-gensymbols command does not warn about new symbols:

      • You are done with the library packaging.

For the details, you should read the following primary references.

Yous should also check:

[提示] 提示

For C++ libraries and other cases where the tracking of symbols is problematic, follow 8.6.4 The shlibs system of the “Debian Policy Manual”, instead. Please make sure to erase the empty debian/binarypackage.symbols file generated by the debmake command. For this case, the DEBIAN/shlibs file is used.

Multiarch support for cross-architecture installation of binary packages (particularly i386 and amd64, but also other combinations) in the dpkg and apt packages introduced in Debian wheezy (7.0, May 2013), demands that we pay extra attention to packaging.

You should read the following references in detail.

The multiarch is enabled by using the <triplet> value such as i386-linux-gnu and x86_64-linux-gnu in the install path of shared libraries as /usr/lib/<triplet>/, etc..

  • The <triplet> value required internally by debhelper scripts is implicitly set in themselves. The maintainer doesn’t need to worry.
  • The <triplet> value used in override_dh_* target scripts must be explicitly set in the debian/rules file by the maintainer. The <triplet> value is stored in the $(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) variable in the following debian/rules snippet example:

    DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH = $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)
    ...
    override_dh_install:
            mkdir -p package1/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)
            cp -dR tmp/lib/. package1/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)

See:

Debian policy requires following Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. Its /usr/lib : Libraries for programming and packages states "/usr/lib includes object files, libraries, and internal binaries that are not intended to be executed directly by users or shell scripts."

Debian policy makes an exception to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard to use /usr/lib/<triplet>/ instead of /usr/lib<qual>/ (e.g., /lib32/ and /lib64/) to support a multiarch library.


For Autotools based packages under the debhelper package (compat>=9), this path setting is automatically taken care by the dh_auto_configure command.

For other packages with non-supported build systems, you need to manually adjust the install path as follows.

  • If “./configure” is used in the override_dh_auto_configure target in debian/rules, make sure to replace it with “dh_auto_configure --” while re-targeting the install path from /usr/lib/ to /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/.
  • Replace all occurrences of /usr/lib/ with /usr/lib/*/ in debian/foo.install files.

All files installed simultaneously as the multiarch package to the same file path should have exactly the same file content. You must be careful with differences generated by the data byte order and by the compression algorithm.

[注意] 注意

The --libexecdir option of the ./configure command specifies the default path to install executable programs run by other programs rather than by users. Its Autotools default is /usr/libexec/ but its Debian non-multi-arch default is /usr/lib/. If such executables are a part of a "Multi-arch: foreign" package, a path such as /usr/lib/ or /usr/lib/packagename may be more desirable than /usr/lib/<triplet>/, which dh_auto_configure uses. The GNU Coding Standards: 7.2.5 Variables for Installation Directories has a description for libexecdir as "The definition of libexecdir is the same for all packages, so you should install your data in a subdirectory thereof. Most packages install their data under $(libexecdir)/package-name/ …". (It is always a good idea to follow GNU unless it conflicts with the Debian policy.)

The shared library files in the default path /usr/lib/ and /usr/lib/<triplet>/ are loaded automatically.

For shared library files in another path, the GCC option -l must be set by the pkg-config command to make them load properly.

The compiler hardening support spreading for Debian jessie (8.0, TBA) demands that we pay extra attention to the packaging.

You should read the following references in detail.

debmake 命令会向 debian/rules 文件中按需添加 DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONSDEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPENDDEB_LDFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND 的项目(参见 第 4 章 简单例子dpkg-buildflags(1))。

The debconf package enables us to configure packages during their installation in 2 main ways:

  • non-interactively from the debian-installer pre-seeding.
  • interactively from the menu interface (dialog, gnome, kde, …)

    • the package installation: invoked by the dpkg command
    • the installed package: invoked by the dpkg-reconfigure command

All user interactions for the package installation must be handled by this debconf system using the following files.

  • debian/binarypackage.config

    • This is the debconf config script used for asking any questions necessary to configure the package.
  • debian/binarypackage.template

    • This is the debconf templates file used for asking any questions necessary to configure the package.
  • package configuration scripts

    • debian/binarypackage.preinst
    • debian/binarypackage.prerm
    • debian/binarypackage.postinst
    • debian/binarypackage.postrm

See dh_installdebconf(1), debconf(7), debconf-devel(7) and 3.9.1 Prompting in maintainer scripts in the “Debian Policy Manual”.

DEP-8 defines the debian/tests/control file as the RFC822-style test metadata file for continuous integration (CI) of the Debian package.

It is used after building the binary packages from the source package containing this debian/tests/control file. When the autopkgtest command is run, the generated binary packages are installed and tested in the virtual environment according to this file.

See documents in the /usr/share/doc/autopkgtest/ directory and 3. autopkgtest: Automatic testing for packages of the “Ubuntu Packaging Guide”.

There are several other CI tools on Debian for you to explore.

  • The debci package: CI platform on top of the autopkgtest package
  • The jenkins package: generic CI platform

Debian cares about supporting new ports or flavours. The new ports or flavours require bootstrapping operation for the cross-build of the initial minimal native-building system. In order to avoid build-dependency loops during bootstrapping, the build-dependency needs to be reduced using the profile builds feature.

[提示] 提示

If a core package foo build depends on a package bar with deep build dependency chains but bar is only used in the test target in foo, you can safely mark the bar with <!nocheck> in the Build-depends of foo to avoid build loops.

The reportbug command used for the bug report of binarypackage can be customized by the files in usr/share/bug/binarypackage/.

The dh_bugfiles command installs these files from the template files in the debian/ directory.

  • debian/binarypackage.bug-controlusr/share/bug/binarypackage/control

    • This file contains some directions such as redirecting the bug report to another package.
  • debian/binarypackage.bug-presubjusr/share/bug/binarypackage/presubj

    • This file is displayed to the user by the reportbug command.
  • debian/binarypackage.bug-scriptusr/share/bug/binarypackage or usr/share/bug/binarypackage/script

    • The reportbug command runs this script to generate a template file for the bug report.

See dh_bugfiles(1) and reportbug’s Features for Developers

[提示] 提示

If you always remind the bug reporter of something or ask them about their situation, use these files to automate it.



[10] 对九成以上的软件包来说,软件包名称都不会超过 24 个字符;上游版本号通常不超过 10 个字符,而 Debian 修订版本号也通常不超过 3 个字符。

[11] Use of the “debmake -t …” command can help this workflow. See 第 6.2 节 “Upstream snapshot (-d, -t)”.

[12] This simplicity is available since version 7 of the debhelper package. This guide assumes the use of debhelper version 9 or newer.

[13] debmake 命令会产生稍微复杂一些的 debian/rules 文件。虽然如此,其核心结构没有什么变化。

[14] If you are using the vim editor, make sure to save this with the “:wq” command.

[15] The licensecheck command from the devscripts package was referenced to make this internal checker. Now the licensecheck command is provided in an independent licensecheck package with a lot of improvements.

[16] 该文档是在 symbols 文件被引入之前写成的。

[17] The strong preference is to use the SONAME versioned -dev package names over the single -dev package name in Chapter 6. Development (-DEV) packages, which does not seem to be shared by the former ftp-master (Steve Langasek). This document was written before the introduction of the multiarch system and the symbols file.

[18] This path is compliant with the FHS. Filesystem Hierarchy Standard: /usr/lib : Libraries for programming and packages states "Applications may use a single subdirectory under /usr/lib. If an application uses a subdirectory, all architecture-dependent data exclusively used by the application must be placed within that subdirectory."