DeBugFix
DeBugFix (Debian bug fix) is a tool to patch a given Debian package.
If you encounter a bug in some program and want to fix it yourself before the Debian maintainers will upload the next release, you can use this tool instead of trying to rebuild the package manually.
Pre-requisities
- Install
sudo,dpkg-devandpython3-appdirs - Enable source repositories in your
/etc/apt/sources.list. To do this, you can copy the lines starting withdeband replacedebtodeb-srcin the beginning of these copied lines - Create a config (at
~/.config/debugfix.json) using the template in the repository
Usage
If you want to patch kate with the patch names patches/some.patch, use the following:
$ # Build the patches packages
$ ./debugfix build -p kate -P patches/some.patch -d 'Insert patch description here'
$ # Update the installed packages to the patched version
$ ./debugfix install -p kate
Safety notes
The script will install build dependencies in the beginning and remove it in the end. The code for this is not super reliable, so you should take extra care and look out for which packages are really installed or removed.
Also, for the same reason, you should run the script only on the fully updated system.
It would be a better idea to create a sandbox and build inside it, but I am lazy to write such code. Any contributions are welcome, though.