To build this package you need to get the git repository: git clone http://git.debian.org/git/pkg-common-lisp/clisp.git Upstream gets imported directly from the tar.gz file into the upstream branch. for more informatin regarding the packaging standards see: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianCommonLisp/GitPackaging Don't forget to change the hard-coded version number: vim debian/clisp-dev.install debian/clisp.install debian/clisp.sh debian/postrm debian/preinst debian/rules To build: git-buildpackage -uc -us --git-debian-branch=master- --git-upstream-branch=upstream- please check your package with: lintian --verbose --info --display-info --md5sums *.changes Then commit any changes and either send me the diff or push this to somewhere were I can fetch it. Some notes on this package: - we cannot link to libreadline v6, see bug #553741 - clisp uses --host and --target only if you do cross compilation, which is a manual affair, so we cannot use this. This means we cannot fix bug #491573 for example... - we disabled dynamic modules on sparc as it will build and will survice 'make check', but dies when loading a module.