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@@ -19,3 +19,17 @@ some of the patches. Additionally you either need to increase the
build dependencies (or ignore that your package has not enough)
or generate an .orig.tar file with all the needed files processes.
(This usually happens by calling make dist).
+
+To get packages from the current git you for example an do:
+
+sudo apt-get install git-core devscripts autoconf automake texinfo # ...
+sudo apt-get build-dep ratpoison
+git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/ratpoison.git
+cd ratpoison
+autoreconf -i
+rm -r autom4te.cache
+./configure
+make dist
+mv ratpoison-1.4.6-GIT.tar.gz ../ratpoison_1.4.6~git$(date +%Y%m%d).orig.tar.gz
+dch -v "1.4.6~git$(date +%Y%m%d)-0" "local git package"
+dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc