Development/Building Packages

How you can build package

Building a packages is easier than one might think, it requires roughly the following steps:

1. . Access to a Devuan/Debian system (you can use a VM running Maemo Leste or a Device running Maemo Leste.
2. . Source code of a package, obtain either via git or apt source <packagename>.
3. . Build a package using dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b (run from source directory)
4. . Optionally install build dependencies with apt (dpkg-buildpackage will tell you)

You can now install the package you have just built with dpkg -i somename.deb.

Also see: https://wiki.debian.org/HowToPackageForDebian

Submitting changes

If you make changes to a package, please submit a pull request for the repository of that package, likely: https://github.com/maemo-leste/PACKAGENAME

For now, we will take care of updating tags and branches.

How packages end up in the repository

There are currently two repositories:

• The main repository: https://maedevu.maemo.org/leste/
• The testing/development repository: https://maedevu.maemo.org/leste-devel

Packages in this repository get build by Jenkins, to which a select group of people has access. (Parazyd, Wizzup, Spinal84)

How packages are built using Jenkins

Read only access to the http frontend: http://phoenix.maemo.org/ (write-access can be granted)

All packages are hosted on https://github.com/maemo-leste and a current list of all the packages in Jenkins can be found here:

https://github.com/maemo-leste/jenkins-integration/blob/master/config.py

Every repository has a branch for each release, for example:

1. maemo/ascii - main branch for Devuan Ascii target
2. maemo/ascii-devel - main branch for Devuan Ascii, but possibly with unstable version
3. maemo/beowulf - main branch for Devuan Beowulf version of the package

See Development/Branches for more information on the usual branches flow.