We want the latest inspircd2.0 branch for debian stable. Stable only has 1.1.22. Instead we'll grab 2.0 from testing, update it to the latest release, and backport it to stable.

• A fully set up install of pbuilder for debian stable

• These packages: devscripts build-essential wget fakeroot

• stable and testing in your sources.list file. To avoid complications we will also make apt prefer testing packages. Edit your /etc/apt/preferences as show below.

Explanation: see http://www.argon.org/~roderick/apt-pinning.html                      
Package: *                                                                      
Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing                                                 
Pin-Priority: 900                                                               
                                                                                
Package: *                                                                      
Pin: release o=Debian,a=unstable                                                
Pin-Priority: 300                                                               
                                                                                
Package: *                                                                      
Pin: release o=Debian                                                           
Pin-Priority: -1                                                                

• To do the package building correctly you will also want to export these variables from your .bashrc

export DEBFULLNAME='Some Guy'
export DEBEMAIL='some.guy@gmail.com'

apt-get update
apt-get --target-release testing source inspircd

• Change into the source directory created by apt
• Lock the debian watch file (debian/watch) down to the 2.0 release as show below.

https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/downloads /downloads/inspircd/inspircd/InspIRCd-(2\.0\..+)\.tar\.bz2

• Use uscan to update the source

uscan --verbose

• Next run uupdate on the new source tarball

uupdate ../inspircd_2.0.9.orig.tar.bz2

• Write a changelog entry for our update

cd ../inspircd-2.0.9
dch -e