Here is *my* howto for packaging PHP PEAR modules in pkg-php SVN.
First use of pkg-php SVN
Check-out SVN sources:
$ cd ~/SVN $ svn co svn+ssh://LOGIN@svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-php/pear
Note: With keyboard-interactive authentification, I need enter twice your password, because the first receives a SIGTERM. I don't know why...
Debian Packaging
See http://wiki.debian.org/GregoryColpart/PearPolicyDraft
First commit
Build locally your package and use svn-buildpackage to inject it:
svn-inject php-PEARLIBRARYNAME*.dsc svn+ssh://LOGIN@svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-php/pear
You will have /svn/pkg-php/pear/php-PEARLIBRARYNAME/{branches,tags,trunk} Upstream sources are in branches/upstream/{x.y.z,x.y.z',current} (current contains last sources) and source package is in trunk.
New upstream release
$ cd trunk $ ./debian/rules get-orig-source $ mv *.orig.tar.gz .. $ svn-upgrade ../*.orig.tar.gz $ svn commit
Now, your files in trunk are up-to-date and you have new sources in branches/upstream.
Hacking
$ vim debian/rules $ dch $ svn commit
Note : when you close a bug in changelog, commiting tags it "pending".
Build package
$ cd /tmp/random $ svn co file:///tmp/svn/pkg-php/pear/php-PEARLIBRARYNAME/ $ cd PEARLIBRARYNAME/trunk $ ./debian/rules get-orig-source $ mkdir ../tarballs $ mv *.orig.tar.gz ../tarballs $ svn-buildpackage -rfakeroot MODULE/trunk/.svn/deb-layout not found, importing settings via Subversion properties... Autodetecting remaining properties... [...]
After final release, you should tag it:
$ svn-buildpackage --svn-tag-only