Describe the building procedure #97
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Can you move this file to debian/README.ubuntu-docker instead?
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Sure. I am concerned that not having any standard GitHub documentation means that the probability of people asking how to build will stay high. The truth is, few folks know about all those Debian packaging conventions, they are like Bazaar: everybody neither knows how to use it nor wants to use it hehe.
How about writing a top level README.md that references debian/README.ubuntu-docker?
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| We have to patch `/usr/share/xcb/dri3.xml`. Either the XML spec or `xcbgen` is broken, so it generates invalid C++ bindings. |
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This isn't done for the regular Ubuntu build. Why is it needed here?
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I have a solid evidence that this is needed: the described build is fully reproducible and happens in a standard docker container, and this error bubbles up. Everything else is about different environments.
The only way to prove this is wrong is to follow all the steps and show that there is no xcbgen error.
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Just FYI this is what I'm using in my CI (it's a bit shorter than what's proposed here, also based on a clean 20.04 container): apt-get update && apt-get install --no-install-recommends -yy make wget xz-utils devscripts equivs quilt
cp debian/changelog.focal debian/changelog
cp debian/control.standard.focal debian/control
export ORIG_VERSION=$(head -1 debian/changelog.focal | grep -oE '([0-9]+\.){3}[0-9]+')
debian/rules get-packaged-orig-source
tar -xf chromium-browser_$ORIG_VERSION.orig.tar.xz --strip-components=1
QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches quilt push -a
mk-build-deps -t 'apt-get --no-install-recommends -yy' --install debian/control
sed -i '0,/<list type="fd" name="buffers">/s//<list type="fd" name="buf">/' /usr/share/xcb/dri3.xml
debuild -b -uc -us |
As promised in #91 (comment)