This page contains notes about Debian and Ubuntu packaging.

== Debian ==

 * [https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=grass&suite=experimental Debian Package Auto-Building]
 * [http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grass/grass.git/log/?h=experimental Alioth.debian.org]

== Launchpad ==

Requirement to upload packages:

 * update OpenGPG to http://keyserver.ubuntu.com and then register OpenGPG in your Launchpad account

=== Build package from tarball ===

{{{
### Based on notes by Ivan Mincik 
### http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073444.html

# 1. Download latest existing version of package from Launchpad
dget https://launchpad.net/~grass/+archive/ubuntu/grass-stable/+files/grass70_7.0.0RC1-3%7Eubuntu12.04.1.dsc

# 2. Prepare working directory with git enabled
mkdir pkg-grass
cd pkg-grass
git init

# 3. Import downloaded version of package from Launchpad
git-import-dsc ../grass70_7.0.0RC1-3%7Eubuntu12.04.1.dsc

# 4. Import new tarball we want to build
git-import-orig ../grass-7.0.0RC2.tar.gz

# 5. Optionally, merge Debian packaging (content of debian direcory:
# lp:~grass/grass/grass70_release_debian) here:

# Update Debian changelog
dch -i
git diff
}}}