florinandrei / keepassxc-debian

Debian source package for the KeePassXC password manager.

KeePassXC Debian Package

This repository contains the necessary files for building Debian binary packages of KeePassXC.

Building Dependencies

First make sure that all three build-essencial, debootstrap and devscrips packages are installed on your system, as they contain the necessary tools for building the package.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essencial debootstrap devscrips

After the installation is complete you will need to configure pbuilder. To do so, you will first need to set the /var/cache/pbuilder/result directory writable by your user account and then create the directory /var/cache/pbuilder/hooks, which again needs to be writable by your user.

sudo chown <user>:<user> /var/cache/pbuilder/result
sudo mkdir /var/cache/pbuilder/hooks
sudo chown <user>:<user> /var/cache/pbuilder/hooks

Next, using your favorite text editor add the following lines in either your /etc/pbuilderrc or ~/.pbuilderrc after creating it.

AUTO_DEBSIGN=${AUTO_DEBSIGN:-no}
HOOKDIR=/var/cache/pbuilder/hooks

Finally, create a file named B90lintian inside your /var/cache/pbuilder/hooks directory with the following contents,

#!/bin/sh
set -e
install_packages() {
        apt-get -y --force-yes install "$@"
        }
install_packages lintian
echo "+++ lintian output +++"
su -c "lintian -i -I --show-overrides /tmp/buildd/*.changes" - pbuilder
# use this version if you don't want lintian to fail the build
#su -c "lintian -i -I --show-overrides /tmp/buildd/*.changes; :" - pbuilder
echo "+++ end of lintian output +++"

and make it executable,

chmod +x `/var/cache/pbuilder/hooks`

Building the Package

First, obtain a fresh copy of the source package using git clone.

git clone https://github.com/magkopian/keepassxc-debian.git

Next, cd into the keepassxc-debian directory and using the pbuilder program create a chroot environment of the target Debian release (e.g. unstable) that you want to build the package for.

cd keepassxc-debian
sudo pbuilder create --distribution <debian-release>
sudo pbuilder --update --distribution <debian-release>

Finally, using the dsc file build the package in the chroot environment you just created.

sudo pbuilder --build keepassxc_<version>.dsc

The newly built package will be located inside the /var/cache/pbuilder/result directory, owned by your user account.

Making Changes to the Package Sources

If you make changes to the package sources instead of using the previous pbuilder command for building the package, you will need to run pdebuild from the keepassxc-<version> directory.

cd keepassxc-<version>
pdebuild

The pdebuild program will generate the source package using the updated sources and also build the binary package for you.