fvwm3-debian

This is the debian/ directory for fvwm3 to build a Debian package (.deb) from the fvwm3 source.

The main branch is used to build a fvwm3 package for the 1.0.9 release of fvwm3. To build against the current fvwm3 master branch, use the fvwm3-git branch.

This builds a package that can be installed along side the fvwm package (which is fvwm version 2). To do this some binaries and manual pages have been renamed. Check debian/NEWS for details.

Build Instructions for Git

These instructions are to build an fvwm3 package from git. Adjust to suit your needs.

Clone fvwm3 and this repo.

git clone https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3.git
git clone https://github.com/somiaj/fvwm3-debian.git

Switch to the fvwm3-git branch.

cd fvwm3-debian
git checkout fvwm3-git
cd ..

Install the Debian build tools and build dependencies.

apt install build-essential debhelper asciidoctor fontconfig gettext \
            libevent-dev libfontconfig-dev libfreetype6-dev libfribidi-dev \
            libncurses-dev libpng-dev libreadline-dev librsvg2-dev \
            libsm-dev libx11-dev libxcursor-dev libxext-dev libxft-dev \
            libxi-dev libxpm-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev libxt-dev

Copy debian/ into the fvwm3 source and build the package.

cd fvwm3
cp -r ../fvwm3-debian/debian ./
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b

Install the resulting .deb package.

sudo apt install ../fvwm3_1.0.*_amd64.deb

FvwmPrompt

Due to Debian policy, the official Debian package cannot contain bundled libraries, so bin/FvwmPrompt/vendor is removed from the Debian source package, and FvwmPrompt must be built using Debian system libraries.

Currently Debian is missing a few golang depends to build FvwmPrompt, see golang-depends.md, so the Debian package won't contain FvwmPrompt until all the depends are packaged for Debian.

To build a local Debian package that uses bin/FvwmPrompt/vendor to build FvwmPrompt, use the official fvwm3 source. Then use the patch in the branch FvwmPrompt to build a package that also builds FvwmPrompt. Use the above instructions along with installing the package golang-go to build the package.