How to Install and Uninstall cvs-buildpackage Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: April 28,2024

1. Install "cvs-buildpackage" package

This guide let you learn how to install cvs-buildpackage on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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2. Uninstall "cvs-buildpackage" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall cvs-buildpackage on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the cvs-buildpackage package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: cvs-buildpackage
Priority: optional
Section: universe/devel
Installed-Size: 124
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian QA Group
Architecture: all
Version: 5.26
Depends: dpkg-dev, cvs
Filename: pool/universe/c/cvs-buildpackage/cvs-buildpackage_5.26_all.deb
Size: 49118
MD5sum: 5604521b6fdb738f90383b1734139359
SHA1: 4e8990ef4519f3981056d46738071ee2e12542e5
SHA256: 96407ae40b3047692c712beeff69da85f399ca27d514e51d21f025b96939af75
Description-en: set of Debian package scripts for CVS source trees
This package provides the capability to inject or import Debian
source packages into a CVS repository, build a Debian package from
the CVS repository, and helps in integrating upstream changes into
the repository.
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The import or inject process takes a dsc (Debian source control)
file, and imports it into CVS. The module path can maintains
distribution and section information; for example, one may inject
hemm/hemm/devel/make into the repository.
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The build process works analogously to dpkg-buildpackage, and can be
used from within the checked out source tree, or with additional
information, can be used from anywhere. In the latter case, you can
build any previous version of the package, as long as the
corresponding orig.tar.gz file is still around. The build script
checks out the relevant version from the CVS repository, and runs
dpkg-buildpackage to create the Debian package.
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Combined, these utilities provide an infrastructure to facilitate the
use of CVS by Debian maintainers. This allows one to keep separate
CVS branches of a package for stable, unstable, and possibly
experimental distributions, along with the other benefits of a
version control system.
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This can be used to generate a unified CVS source tree, for example.
Description-md5: 91156391ecfea2ae1fa81271aac239e0
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu