linux-status for Debian
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There's a Dockerfile to make maintenance easier.  To start, run `make docker`;
on exit from the shell, the container will be brought down.

There're a bunch of useful one-liners in Makefile.  Everything is built in
debian/build-area/.

  * Merge the new version to the debian branch (cannot be a lightweight tag for
    the gbp tools to work):

      git merge TAG

  * Add a changelog entry & tag it:

      make changelog
      make tag

  * To test, make a source package:

      make src       # Or:
      make src/test  # Ignores uncommitted changes.

  * To test, make a binary package:

      make bin       # Or:
      make bin/test  # Ignores uncommmited changes.

  * You can push the changes to GitHub now:

      make push

    The rest should be taken care of by GitHub Actions.  Otherwise, you can
    upload the package to Launchpad manually as described below.

  * Upload the source package to the PPA:

      make upload

    To make the package available for different Ubuntu distributions, copy the
    package binaries on Launchpad.  I dread the day when this becomes
    impossible.

  * Make a binary package using pbuilder (useful for testing that the package
    builds on a particular distribution):

      make DIST=focal dist/create
      make DIST=focal dist/update
      make DIST=focal dist
      make DIST=focal dist/test  # Ignores uncommitted changes.

 -- Egor Tensin <egor@tensin.name>  Mon, 08 Mar 2021 07:33:14 +0000