Make performous Debian packages from current developer source code

Posted 08-17-2010 at 12:31 PM by jere21
Updated 02-17-2011 at 03:01 AM by jere21

Tags debian, microphone, performous, singstar, squeeze

Built the package locally
This uses the official Debian packaging statically.

Change to your working directory and remember it
Code:
```
DIR="$(pwd)"
```

Clone upstream git repository

Code:

cd $DIR
git clone git://git.performous.org/gitroot/performous/performous

Tell git-buildpackage where the upstream branch is

Code:

cd $DIR/performous/
cat <<EOF > .git/gbp.conf
[DEFAULT]
# this is the upstream branch:
upstream=origin
EOF

Create debian branch

Code:

git branch debian

Switch to debian branch, add Debian's debian/ directory and slightly increase version number

Code:

cd $DIR/performous
git checkout debian
cd $DIR
svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-games/packages/trunk/performous/
cd $DIR/performous
dch -lgit built from upstream git code
git add .
git commit -m"Added official Debian packaging"

Build Debian package

Code:

cd $DIR/performous
git-buildpackage

If this fails, probably some build-dependencies are not installed. Something like this:

Code:

dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libsdl1.2-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libpulse-dev portaudio19-dev
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting.

Install them manually or with

Code:

sudo apt-get build-dep -y performous

Update
Set DIR to the correct value again, then do
Code:
```
cd $DIR/performous
git pull
```
and repeat steps 4 and 5.

When new Debian packages are available, we will return to the official packages automatically. In order to return to the locally built development versions the Debian packaging needs to be updated.

Import songs

Get them from original singstar DVDs
Code:
```
some ssextract command
```

Fix video name

Code:

eval find SingStar -name notes.txt -exec sed -i 's|VIDEO:video.m4v|VIDEO:video.mpg|' '{}' ';'

Configuration
Original problems:

4 micros are shown, although none/only 2 are connected
audio capture doesn't work correctly

Enable (only) the original dual usb singstar micros :

Code:

performous --mics alsa:hw:default,0

--> saving the config in performous then gives:
~/.config/performous/config.xml:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<performous>
  <entry name="audio/capture" type="string_list">
    <stringvalue>alsa:hw:default,0</stringvalue>
  </entry>
  [...]
</performous>

Activate micro:
[Gnome] Volume Control: USBMIC Serial# 082480410 (Alsa Mixer):
Recording - Microphone: choose appropriate sound level

Use songs:

Code:

ln -s /home/user/folder /usr/local/share/games/ultrastar/songs/

Note
duet mode currently not supported by performous (see docs/TODO.txt)

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