From d5ce69ef75770aa4be631c8477daebed45e77f8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2021 10:06:09 +0200
Subject: build: add script to build subplot.deb

---
 README.md | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

(limited to 'README.md')

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d3156e9..b2f6e03 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -28,6 +28,27 @@ Rust run `cargo test`.
 To run the whole test suite, including testing all examples and
 Subplot self tests, run `./check` at the root of the source tree.
 
+# Building Debian package
+
+To build a subplot.deb package, run the `build-deb` script, on a
+Debian machine with the necessary packages installed, in a git
+checkout of the source tree:
+
+~~~sh
+$ ./build-deb /tmp/where/built/package/should/go
+~~~
+
+You'll need the following packages installed:
+
+> build-essential
+> git
+
+Additionally, any packages reported by running the following command:
+
+~~~sh
+$ dpkg-checkbuilddeps
+~~~
+
 # Legalese
 
 Copyright 2019-2020  Lars Wirzenius
-- 
cgit v1.2.1