---
name: "dh-make-gosa"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gosa-dev"
version: "2.8~git20230203.10abe45+dfsg-1+deb12u2"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/dh-make-gosa"
---

# dh-make-gosa(1)

Debianizes the source of a given gosa plugin

## NAME

dh-make-gosa - Debianizes the source of a given gosa plugin

## SYNOPSIS

**dh-make-gosa \[OPTION\]...** **SOURCE**

## DESCRIPTION

**dh-make-gosa** takes a directory or tar ball of an existing gosa plugin and adds debian information to it. Feel free to use *dpkg-buildpackage* to generate your own gosa-plugin package from source or svn and enable it in the [**gosa.conf**(5)](/gosa.conf/5.md) file to activate it.

## OPTIONS

- \-r debian-release, --release debian-release

  Set the Debian release to **debian-release** when generating the Debian tree. Default is the *unstable* release.

- \--dest destination-directory

  Place where **dh-make-gosa** will place its working data while generating the source directory. Defaults to the current directory.

- \--section debian-section

  Set the Debian section to **debian-section** when generating the Debian tree.  Defaults to the the *web* section.

- \--depends package,package,...

  Add additional dependencies to the Debian tree which did not get listed in the *plugin.dsc* file. This is a comma separated list of Debian package names.

- \-e mail, --email mail

  Overrides the Debian packager defined inside the *plugin.dsc* file by the one specified by **mail.**

## Example usage

```
# Check out a plugin from SVN
svn co https://oss.gonicus.de/repositories/gosa/trunk/gosa-plugins/samba /tmp/samba
# Debianize the tree
cd /tmp
dh-make-gosa --email cajus@debian.org --release etch --section web samba
# Build debian package
cd samba
dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot
```

To build everything from the subversion repository which is GOsa related, please take a look at the contributed **make-gosa-package** script.

## AUTHOR

Cajus Pollmeier \<cajus@debian.org\>

## BUGS

Please report any bugs, or post any suggestions, to the GOsa mailing list \<gosa-devel@oss.gonicus.de\> or to \<https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa\>

## LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

This code is part of GOsa (L\<http://www.gosa-project.org\>)

Copyright (C) 2003-2009 GONICUS GmbH

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.