There are different type of layouts. First the *new* standard layout used by gutsy firefox/thunderbird/firefox-granparadiso and later others:
Setup your main working directory ================================== #1 go to your bzr work directory (for me i created a directory: $HOME/mozillateam_bzr) cd $HOME/mozillateam_bzr #2 OPTIONAL: initialize that directory as a bzr repository: bzr init-repo . #3 create a tarballs/ directory, like mkdir tarballs Use-Case: Create new orig.tar.gz from upstream tarball ======================================================== # create a directory called packagename-UPSTREAM.VERSION, e.g. mkdir midbrowser-0.1~daily070730/ # put in the upstream tarball cp /tmp/midbrowser-0.1~daily070730-source.tar.bz2 midbrowser-0.1~daily070730/ # tar it up as a new orig: tar cvzf tarballs/midbrowser_0.1~daily070730.orig.tar.gz midbrowser-0.1~daily070730/ Build from bzr =============== #1 ensure you are in your main bzr work dir cd $HOME/mozillateam_bzr #2 checkout a bzr branch: bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mobile/midbrowser/ubuntu midbrowser.ubuntu #3 build bzr branch: cd midbrowser.ubuntu/; bzr bd --merge . #4 look at results in $HOME/mozillateam_bzr/build-area ... and install .debs etc. from there cd $HOME/mozillateam_bzr/build-area
*** Commands to build Iceape/Seamonkey ***
#0 Grab from bzr bzr clone http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mozillateam/iceape/ubuntu-1.1.x #1 Update from branch bzr pull #2a Grab seamonkey source tarball and extract it tar -xvzf seamonkey-1.1.1.source.tar.gz #2b move files to top level and remove mozilla dir mv mozilla/* . mv mozilla/.?* . rmdir mozilla #2c Generate a new tarball containing only dfsg free content. fakeroot debian/rules source #3 Build dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -kKEYID -i.bzr #4 If build fails make changes then test without complete respin. dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -nc