Ubuntu Package for diff-so-fancy

This repository holds the debian/ files responsible for packaging diff-so-fancy.

Installation

To use this package:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:aos1/diff-so-fancy
sudo apt update
sudo apt install diff-so-fancy

Technical Details

The PPA can be found here.

This package uses the overlay method with git-buildpackage. That is, this package only holds the debian directory, downloads the release tarball, overlays the debian directory, and creates the package.

Requirements

In order to build this package you will need the following packages:

• sbuild (https://wiki.debian.org/sbuild)
• git-buildpackage

New Release Usage (Ubuntu)

1. Make necessary directories if they don't exist:

$ mkdir tarballs build

2. Download latest release with uscan --destdir tarballs (This might be broken, you can instead download the release tarball and rename it to the appropriate name.)
3. Make changes if necessary, and run gbp dch
4. Run:

$ gbp buildpackage --git-builder="sbuild --source-only-changes --debbuildopts='--buildinfo-option=-O'"

This will create a source-only package, and not write-out the .buildinfo (-O) flag. It also uses sbuild to make the package. (See https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/1699763)

5. Upload the changes file to PPA:

$ dput ppa:aos1/diff-so-fancy build/diff-so-fancy_1.2.6-1ubuntu1_source.changes

Create Binary Packages (.deb)

Follow steps 1 - 3 above. Then, run this command instead:

$ gbp buildpackage --git-builder=sbuild

All other configuration is stored under debian/gbp.conf.