README.md

This repository contains scripts for building a Debian package for the piqi command-line tool.

The package includes:

1. /usr/bin/piqi
2. PIQI(1) man page
3. HTML documentation (also available online at http://piqi.org/doc/)

Build prerequisites

Install the following packages:

# necessary for Debian packaging
apt-get install build-essential debhelper fakeroot

# required for the build itself
apt-get install ocaml camlp4-extra ocaml-findlib

# for building documentation and running tests
apt-get install pandoc libprotoc-dev protobuf-compiler

Building the package

make

Updating the package

To update the package after a new Piqi version is released:

1. Set the VERSION and COMMIT variables in ./Makefile to the new upstream version.
2. Edit debian/changelog