In this guide we consider adblock-plus package as example.
- Clone the git repository:
git clone git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-mozext/adblock-plus.git
- Go inside new adblock-plus directory created
cd adblock-plus
- Fetch the pristine-tar and upstream branches
git fetch origin pristine-tar:pristine-tar upstream:upstream
- uscan to get the new upstream release
uscan --debug --repack
Please USE the repack option (check for it in d/watch and if does not exist, add it)
- upgrade
git-import-orig --pristine-tar ../<new_pack>.orig.tar.{gz,bz2}
- push
git push --all
- tag
git push --tags
From now we can start with all required modification.