Building a new release tarball

• Retrieve tarball
• untar it
• mv xf86-video-ati-6.12.0.tar.gz xserver-xorg-video-ati_6.12.0.orig.tar.gz
• mv xf86-video-ati-6.12.0/ xserver-xorg-video-ati-6.12.0/
• cp -r xserver-xorg-video-ati-6.11.0/debian xserver-xorg-video-ati-6.12.0/

• Doublecheck that ChangeLog and other autoconfage is present; else you may have wrong tarball...

• Review applicability of stuff in debian/patches
• dch -i; set dist, version, and commit message
• update-maintainer
• debuild -i -sa -S

• sudo ARCH=i386 DIST=intrepid pbuilder build <.dsc>

  • -or-
• debuild -i -uc -us
  • -or-
• dpkg-buildpackage -d -us -uc -rfakeroot

Building from a git snapshot

• Retrieve from git, note the date
• Run:

  ./autogen.sh
  git log > ChangeLog
  rm -rf .git autom4te.cache config.log config.h config.status
  find . -name Makefile | xargs rm

• NEW_ORIG_DIR=xserver-xorg-video-ati-$VERSION+git$DATE
• NEW_ORIG_PKG=xserver-xorg-video-ati_$VERSION+git$DATE
• mv xf86-video-ati $NEW_ORIG_DIR
• tar czf ${NEW_ORIG_PKG}.orig.tar.gz $NEW_ORIG_DIR
• cp -r xserver-xorg-video-ati-$OLD_VERSION/debian $NEW_ORIG_DIR
• Review applicability of stuff in debian/patches
• dch -i; set dist, version, and commit message
• update-maintainer
• debuild -i -sa -S

• sudo ARCH=i386 DIST=intrepid pbuilder build <.dsc>

  • -or-
• debuild -i -uc -us
  • -or-
• dpkg-buildpackage -d -us -uc -rfakeroot

Building and installing manually straight from git

 ./autogen.sh && make
 sudo cp --remove-destination src/.libs/intel_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/
 sudo killall X

Ubuntu X Updates PPA

We maintain a semi-official PPA repository of X.org driver updates at:

• https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates/

ubuntu-x-swat members are welcome to upload new package updates here, but please note the guidelines below.

We encourage users to rely on these packages as updates on top of a regular stable distribution. Thus it is important that packages we place in here be well tested and known to be stable. Do not upload packages for testing purposes - use the main X-Testing PPA, or a PPA in xorg-edgers, or your own PPA in these cases.

Packages should be named in one of the following forms:

• Backports of Ubuntu packages: 1:6.12.2-0ubuntu1~maverick~xup1
• Backports of SRU's: 2:1.16.0-4ubuntu1.2~natty~xup1
• Debian syncs: 1.2.5-1ubuntu0~oneiric~xup1
• New upstream releases not in Ubuntu: 304.51-0ubuntu0~precise~xup1
• New git snapshots from upstream: 1:1.2.3~git20120913.8637f772-0ubuntu0~quantal~xup1

The idea here is to select version numbering that is both consistent, and enables the packages to be gracefully upgraded from if a new version is released to Ubuntu via an SRU.