NAME

dh-make-raku - Create debian source package from Raku module

SYNOPSIS

  # Create a new package
  dh-make-raku --git=<git_url> --pkg=<pkg-name> --tag=<upstream_release_tag>
  # refresh a package (to be run in package dir)
  dh-make-raku
  # get new release from upstream
  dh-make-raku --upgrade <new_upstream_version>

REQUIREMENTS

This script requires:

An account on Salsa and be part of Raku package team. See How to get involved <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianRakudoGroup#How_to_get_involved> wiki page.
Git credentials for Salsa. See "Git credentials" section.
Quilt <https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/quilt> installed and configured. The installation should be done when installing "dh-make-raku", but the configuration must be done in your home directory. Please see Using Quilt <https://wiki.debian.org/UsingQuilt> wiki page.

DESCRIPTION

When fed a "git" upstream URL, dh-make-raku does the following tasks:

Clone upstream repository and setup an "upstream" branch with an "upstream-git" remote.
Create the files required to build a debian source package on "debian/sid" branch.
Commit these files
Create a Raku module project on Debian's salsa
Setup "origin" remote on Salsa

This works for most simple packages and is also useful for getting started with packaging Raku modules.

Create package files

With upstream release tag

To create a new package, you must have:

The URL of the git repository of the new module. Only "https" style URL are supported.
Debian package name. Usually "raku-something"
The upstream tag of the release to be packaged. See below if upstream does not use tags.

Then run a command like:

  dh-make-raku --git=<git_url> --pkg=<pkg-name> --tag=<upstream_release_tag>

For instance:

  dh-make-raku --git=https://git.tyil.nl/raku/Log --pkg=raku-log --tag=v0.3.1

Without upstream release tag

In this case, you must use a git reference instead of a tag. Usually "HEAD" is good enough. "dh-make-raku" will get upstream version from "META6.json"

For instance:

  dh-make-raku --tag HEAD --git https://github.com/tadzik/File-Find.git --pkg raku-file-find

Build the package

Run:

  gbp buildpackage

Update a package

Run

  dh-make-raku --upgrade <new_upstream_version>

This command update the "upstream" branch and merge it in "debian/sid" branch and then update debian files.

Options

--git: URL of the package repository.
--pkg: Debian package name.
--tag: Upstream tag or a git reference.

Change upstream remote URL

To update upstream remote URL and its homepage, run

  dh-make-raku -git <new_remote>

Then "dh-make-raku" updates git remote, all reference of upstream home page in debian files.

Git credentials

Be default, "dh-make-raku" gets git credentials from "~/.git-credentials" file.

If this file is not available, Salsa credentials must be provided with "DRT_SALSA_USER" and "DRT_SALSA_PRIVATE_TOKEN" environment variables.

For what it's worth, "DRT" means "Debian Raku Team".

BUGS

I could not find a way to extract a description from markdown documentation. So you'll have to manually edit this field in "debian/control" or with "cme edit dpkg-control".
The content of the generated "debian/gbp.conf" may have the wrong version tag. Edit this file manually if "gbp build-package" complains about missing tarball.
The generated "debian/copyright" file is somewhat too verbose. This file is generated by cme <https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/cme/cme.1p.en.html>. I'm working on improving this. See cme wiki on dpkg-copyright <https://github.com/dod38fr/config-model/wiki/Updating-debian-copyright-file-with-cme> if you want to work around generation issues.

AUTHOR

Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org>