| | 1 | Before beginning development, you should have a workstation (or VM) with Debathena installed. Unless you have a strong preference, we recommend starting with the highest version of Ubuntu supported by Debathena. As of January 2011, this is Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid). I |
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| | 3 | You should install at least the debathena-standard metapackage. You should also install the debathena-debian-dev package, which installs a number of packages required for building Debian packages. |
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| | 5 | You should also create the file ~/.devscripts with the following contents: |
| | 6 | DEBUILD_DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_OPS="-us -uc -sa -i -I.svn" |
| | 7 | DEBEMAIL="yourusername@mit.edu" |
| | 8 | DEBFULLNAME="Your Full Name" |
