kakoune-debian

This repository contains the files necessary to build a Debian package for the kakoune project.

The point is not to provide a proper package that follows all the Debian guidelines regarding package creation, but rather to allow users to quickly deploy the editor on Debian systems with a dummy package.

As such, the changelog will not be updated, and the package metadata (descriptions, versions etc) will be kept at a minimum so as to not duplicate the work done by actual package maintainers.

How to generate a deb package

The package has to be generated in a Debian environment (using e.g. docker), and the following package has to be installed, additionally to the build dependencies of the project itself:

debhelper

Get the source code of the project, and extract it:

$ wget -O kakoune-1.0_1.0.orig.tar.gz https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/archive/master.tar.gz
$ tar xf kakoune-1.0_1.0.orig.tar.gz

Clone this repository in the kakoune code directory:

$ cd kakoune-master
$ git clone https://github.com/lenormf/kakoune-debian debian

Generate a package, and optionally install it:

$ dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
# dpkg -i ../kakoune-1.0*.deb

How the debian files were generated

In order to come up with the files versioned in this repository, the following command was used from within the upstream code directory:

dh_make -y -s -p kakoune-1.0 --createorig -e e@ma.il -c custom --copyrightfile ../UNLICENSE

After that, the files in the newly created debian directory were modified, trimmed up and tweaked.