Rebuild Ubuntu Package

Reference

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/dpkg-buildpackage.1.html
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/index.en.html
http://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/debian-packaging.html
http://askubuntu.com/questions/28372/how-do-i-get-the-source-code-of-packages-installed-through-apt-get
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
http://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.becoming-package-maintainer.html

Rebuild Flow Example

Download Source Code

最簡單的方式是利用 apt-get source

$ sudo apt-get source python-twill
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Picking 'twill' as source package instead of 'python-twill'
NOTICE: 'twill' packaging is maintained in the 'Svn' version control system at:
svn://svn.debian.org/python-modules/packages/twill/trunk/
Need to get 255 kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ precise/universe twill 0.9-3 (dsc) [1,367 B]
Get:2 http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ precise/universe twill 0.9-3 (tar) [242 kB]
Get:3 http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ precise/universe twill 0.9-3 (diff) [11.5 kB]
Fetched 255 kB in 3s (64.5 kB/s) 
gpgv: Signature made Sun 04 Dec 2011 11:29:49 PM CST using DSA key ID 5E3619D3
gpgv: Can't check signature: public key not found
dpkg-source: warning: failed to verify signature on ./twill_0.9-3.dsc
dpkg-source: info: extracting twill in twill-0.9
dpkg-source: info: unpacking twill_0.9.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: info: unpacking twill_0.9-3.debian.tar.gz
dpkg-source: info: applying 01_fix_history_path.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 02_remove_ext.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 03_no_setuptools.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 04_fix_deprecated_ClientForm.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 05_fix_missing_imports.patch

$ ll
total 268
drwxr-xr-x  3 eric_chen pjack   4096 Oct  9 15:39 ./
drwxr-xr-x 63 eric_chen pjack   4096 Oct  9 14:33 ../
drwxr-xr-x  9 root      root    4096 Oct  9 15:39 twill-0.9/
-rw-r--r--  1 root      root   11494 Dec 17  2011 twill_0.9-3.debian.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root      root    1367 Dec 17  2011 twill_0.9-3.dsc
-rw-r--r--  1 root      root  242291 Feb  9  2009 twill_0.9.orig.tar.gz

如果有 dsc 檔， 裡面含有 Link 時， 也可以用 dpkg-source 指令下載

$ dpkg-source -x twill_0.9-3.dsc 
gpgv: Signature made Sun 04 Dec 2011 11:29:49 PM CST using DSA key ID 5E3619D3
gpgv: Can't check signature: public key not found
dpkg-source: warning: failed to verify signature on ./twill_0.9-3.dsc
dpkg-source: info: extracting twill in twill-0.9
dpkg-source: info: unpacking twill_0.9.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: info: unpacking twill_0.9-3.debian.tar.gz
dpkg-source: info: applying 01_fix_history_path.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 02_remove_ext.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 03_no_setuptools.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 04_fix_deprecated_ClientForm.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 05_fix_missing_imports.patch

Modify ChangeLog

$ sudo apt-get install devscripts
$ cd twill-0.9
~/twill-0.9/$ dch -v twill-0.9-3ubuntu1
# 或是用這個指令也可
~/twill-0.9/$ dch -i  # Increment the final component of the Debian release number

twill (0.9-3ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * test rebuild

 -- eric_chen   Wed, 09 Oct 2013 15:40:31 +0800

twill (0.9-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add debian/patches/04_fix_deprecated_ClientForm.patch as ClientForm
    is now shipped with mechanize.
    + debian/rules:
      - Drop Depends on python-clientform.
    + debian/control:
      - Bump python-mechanize Depends to >= 0.2.0~.
  * debian/patches/02_remove_ext.patch:
    + Fix tests as well.
  * Add debian/patches/05_fix_missing_imports.patch.
  * debian/control:
    + Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2. No changes needed.
  * Switch from now deprecated pysupport to dh_python2.
    + Drop debian/pyversions and debian/pycompat.
    + debian/rules:
      - Remove DEB_PYTHON_SYSTEM.
    + debian/control:
      - Add X-Python-Version field.
      - Bump python and cdbs versions.

Rebuild Package

先把需要的 package 裝一裝

$ sudo apt-get build-dep python-twill 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Picking 'twill' as source package instead of 'python-twill'
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  cdbs debhelper dh-apparmor dh-translations docbook-xml docbook-xsl html2text intltool python-scour xsltproc
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,701 kB/2,781 kB of archives.
After this operation, 16.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

開始 rebuild

~/twill-0.9$ debuild -us -uc
 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc
dpkg-buildpackage: export CFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security
dpkg-buildpackage: export CPPFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
dpkg-buildpackage: export CXXFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security
dpkg-buildpackage: export FFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: export LDFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro
dpkg-buildpackage: source package twill
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.9-3
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Arnaud Fontaine 
 dpkg-source --before-build twill-0.9
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64
 fakeroot debian/rules clean
...

$ ll
-rw-r--r--  1 eric_chen pjack  68498 Oct  9 15:42 python-twill_0.9-3ubuntu1_all.deb
drwxr-xr-x 10 eric_chen pjack   4096 Oct  9 15:42 twill-0.9/
-rw-r--r--  1 eric_chen pjack  17480 Oct  9 15:43 twill_0.9-3ubuntu1_amd64.build
-rw-r--r--  1 eric_chen pjack   1252 Oct  9 15:42 twill_0.9-3ubuntu1_amd64.changes
-rw-r--r--  1 eric_chen pjack  11468 Oct  9 15:42 twill_0.9-3ubuntu1.debian.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 eric_chen pjack   1149 Oct  9 15:42 twill_0.9-3ubuntu1.dsc