=== 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.