I've been using the mercurial ppa, but that seems to be updated sporadically (at best) and attempts to reach the dev have failed. I'm looking at building these packages myself now.
There's also the mercurial package for Ubuntu itself; presumably this is the source even for the PPA.
I want to take the tarball from the mercurial web site and use that to create updated .deb packages.
I started by following the Packaging Guide:
bzr init-repo mercurial
bzr branch ubuntu:mercurial mercurial.dev
I downloaded the current mercurial tarball (mercurial-3.4.1.tar.gz) and used that to replace the contents of mercurial.dev. (I didn't remove any files that weren't in the tarball. So, for example, the "debian" and ".pc" directories are still there, as-they-were. I also believe it's probably not quite as simple as just putting the contents of the actual tarball into this directory, but...first things first...)
However, when I try to then create the deb (with "bzr builddeb") it's clear that there is some reference to mercurial version 3.1.2 somewhere. The opening output from the builddeb command looks like:
$ bzr builddeb
Building using working tree
Building package in normal mode
Purging the build dir: /home/jgindin/src/mercurial/build-area/mercurial-3.1.2
Looking for a way to retrieve the upstream tarball
Upstream tarball already exists in build directory, using that
Building the package in /home/jgindin/src/mercurial/build-area/mercurial-3.1.2, using debuild
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc
dpkg-buildpackage: source package mercurial
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 3.1.2-2
dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution unstable
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Javi Merino <[email protected]>
dpkg-source --before-build mercurial-3.1.2
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64
fakeroot debian/rules clean
dh clean --with python2,bash-completion
dh_testdir
debian/rules override_dh_auto_clean
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/jgindin/src/mercurial/build-area/mercurial-3.1.2'
cp -a mercurial/__version__.py mercurial/__version__.py.save
dh_auto_clean
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/jgindin/src/mercurial/build-area/mercurial-3.1.2'
(The output continues, but seems irrelevant given that it's not understanding that I'm building 3.4.1.)
I've grep'd through the files in my local directory here looking for any reference to "3.1.2", but only find it in the "debian/changelog" file.
Can someone please point out where I've gone wrong and/or some further reference reading? I feel like I'm close......
dch -i
and change the new version you get to 3.4.1. That's also used to pick the source tarball, if you have one.