Building Ubuntu packages

These steps describe roughly, how one can create Ubuntu packages out of
Subsurface and publish them in Launchpad. Steps are from our latest beta
release and pushed to subsurface-beta. You need quite a bit of packages
installed for all this to work, but that is not described here. The
contents of control, rules and other files edited can be spied from the
previous packages. GPG is used to sign the changes file and SSH keys are
required for the upload to Launchpad.

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# First we need to create a source directory and have the sources of the
# latest version there

version="4.2.90"
mkdir subsurface-${version}
cd subsurface-git
git archive --format=tar v${version} | tar -xf - -C ../subsurface${version}/
cd ../subsurface${version}

# Then we create the source tarball and "Debianize" the sources with
# dh_make

dh_make --email miika.turkia@gmail.com -c gpl2 --createorig --single

# Next step is to fix the control files

rm debian/*.ex debian/*.EX debian/README.*
vi debian/{changelog,copyright,control,rules}

# Generating the build instructions that can be uploaded to Launchpad
# (or tested first locally with pbuilder). Following assumes that the
# version initially is "trusty"

debuild -S

# To test locally, one needs pbuilder set up properly

sudo pbuilder build subsurface_${version}-0exp1ppa1~trusty.dsc

# Once everything is working properly, create the other supported
# releases and upload them all to Launchpad.

sed -i 's/trusty/utopic/g' debian/changelog && debuild  -S
sed -i 's/utopic/precise/g' debian/changelog && debuild  -S

dput ppa:subsurface/subsurface-beta subsurface_${version}-0exp1ppa1~trusty_source.changes
dput ppa:subsurface/subsurface-beta subsurface_${version}-0exp1ppa1~utopic_source.changes
dput ppa:subsurface/subsurface-beta subsurface_${version}-0exp1ppa1~precise_source.changes
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Current dependencies are the following:

Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8.0.0), cmake, libdivecomputer-dev (>=
0.4.2), cdbs, libqt4-dev, qt4-qmake, libxml2-dev, libxslt1-dev,
zlib1g-dev, libusb-1.0-0-dev, libzip-dev, libmarble-dev, libsqlite3-dev,
libqtwebkit-dev, pkg-config, libgit2-dev, asciidoc

Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libdivecomputer0 (>= 0.4.2)

And the rules file contains only the following includes:

include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk
include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/qmake.mk