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====== RCBW (release critical bugs of the week) work flow ======

**Description:** If you want to collaborate in the RCBW initiative, a workflow is quite useful. Here you have the workflow I use.

**Language(s):** English 

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Download the package and try to build it:

  PKG_NAME="package_name"; PKG_VERSION="version_number"; PKG_REVISION="revision_number"
  mkdir ${PKG_NAME}; cd ${PKG_NAME}
  apt-get source ${PKG_NAME}
  sudo cowbuilder --build ${PKG_NAME}_${PKG_VERSION}-${PKG_REVISION}.dsc

If it is not a FTBFS, try to reproduce the bug. If it is a FTBFS, you have reproduced the bug while building.
  
  cd ${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}
  dch -n
  
Fix the bug.

  PKG_NMU_REVISION="nmu_revision_number"
  cd ..
  dpkg-source -b ${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}
  sudo cowbuilder --build ${PKG_NAME}_${PKG_VERSION}-${PKG_NMU_REVISION}.dsc

Check if new package works as expected. If it doesn't work, fix it, recreate the source package and rebuild it again until it works properly.

If it works run tools like //debdiff// and //lintian//:

  PBUILDERRESULT="pbuilder_results_dirname"
  debdiff ${PKG_NAME}_${PKG_VERSION}-${PKG_REVISION}.dsc $PBUILDERRESULT/${PKG_NAME}_${PKG_VERSION}-${PKG_NMU_REVISION}.dsc
  lintian -F $PBUILDERRESULT/${PKG_NAME}_${PKG_VERSION}-${PKG_NMU_REVISION}*.changes

Sign and upload the package and send an email to BTS with nmudiff

  debsign $PBUILDERRESULT/${PKG_NAME}_${PKG_VERSION}-${PKG_NMU_REVISION}*.changes
  dput -e 5 $PBUILDERRESULT/${PKG_NAME}_${PKG_VERSION}-${PKG_NMU_REVISION}*.changes
  cd ${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}
  nmudiff --delay=5
  
Workflows that inspired this one:
  * gregoa's workflow: http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/articles/rcbw/
  * zack's workflow: http://upsilon.cc/~zack/hacking/debian/rcbw/