Ubuntu Wiki

This page hold my notes, to do items, and done items as part of the process of becoming a MOTU.

To Do

• SRU
• backports

• everything else

Notes

• UDD process
  • Finding Out of date packages:

    • http://people.canonical.com/~platform/ubuntu-desktop/

    • qa.ubuntuwire.org/mdt/universe.html#outdatedandlocalinB
  • File a Bug:
    • add the tag upgrade-software-version
    • subscribe Ubuntu-Sponsors if it's not a desktop package (after work is done)
  • Check debian to see what version they're using, prefer to sync or from debian.
  • Get the code
    • UDD
      • bzr branch ubuntu:sonic
      • cd sonic

    • Alternative method - some Desktop branches just have the debian folder checked in, for example, Yelp

      • debcheckout <source>

  • Merge
    • Upsream Merge

      • bzr merge-upstream --version X.Y <path to tarball>

        • download upstream tarball if needed
    • Debian Merge
      • bzr merge lp:debian/experimental/simplejson

      • If merging from unstable, check merge-o-matic and use grab-merge.

      • If there are no more Ubuntu changes, do a sync request instead

  • dch -i
    • set distoseries
    • add bug number to the LP bug filed for the upgrade
  • Build
    • bzr-builddeb --split to create the .orig.tar.gz
  • Things to check after the merge
    • check the ChangeLog/NEWS to see if patches were applied upstream
    • See what Launchpad bugs it closes
    • apply all quilt packages if applicable
      • quilt refresh if there is fuzz
      • quilt push -f if there are rejects, manually fix, and then refresh
      • remove old patches: these may need to be bzr committed or it may complain about missing patches
      • you may need to bzr add or remove files in the .pc directory
    • For upstream merges
      • check NEWS file (gnome) and add entries to changelog
      • check configure.ac and look for new dependencies or version changes on dependencies
  • bzr-buildpackage --package-merge (package-merge generates the appropriate -v tag which is needed to highlight what changes came in this version)
  • bzr-buildpackage -S --package-merge (source)
  • If you want to pbuild the package:
    • bzr-buildpackage -S --package-merge
    • cd ../build-area
    • pbuild
  • If there are Ubuntu changes and the previous version was just synced from debian, run update-maintainer, it will change the maintainer and original-maintainer to Ubuntu.
• Misc Notes

  • Debian Package hardening: http://wiki.debian.org/HardeningWalkthrough

  • Seeing who made a sync request, look at publishing history.

  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/New

  • dput will go to -proposed and will be migrated later
  • The LP branch will be updated after the dput automagically
  • If there is a new upstream (or a new upstream in Debian) you rebuild the upstream with -sa.
  • Skipping tests during debbuild (for hacking): DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck