debian (ubuntu) mercurial-buildpackage

[Augie Fackler]

> On Jun 14, 2019, at 05:17, Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I just learned about the existence of the package and I tried to make a
> debian package from the hg-stable branch.
> 
> Does anybody have experience with this package?

As long as you have the right dependencies installed, you can just do `make deb` in your clone of Mercurial and a deb will come out the other end. You probably want to set DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck in your environment to skip running the test suite (we keep it green, and it's very slow.)

> 
> For me it does not work since it seems that the command requires a
> changelog file with a certain syntax in a subdirectory called debian.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Uwe Brauer 
> 
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