GitLab

This suppose you have either a sid/experimental system with latest GNOME packages or a pbuilder experimental setup.

• In a VM, enable experimental sources then:

  apt-get build-dep -t experimental gnome-shell
  apt-get install quilt git-buildpackage

• For pbuilder:

  pbuilder create --distribution experimental --override-config

clone debian git in gnome-shell-debian

git clone https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-shell.git gnome-shell-debian

create upstream/latest branch

git co -b upstream/latest origin/upstream/latest

clone upstream git

git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell.git gnome-shell-git
git submodule update --init

disable upstream VCS tag checking

commit 3f53de522495a321bb962e5b9e4ddaca66957823
Author: user <user@debian>
Date:   Tue Apr 2 16:31:22 2019 +0200

    disable upstream VCS tag checking

diff --git a/debian/gbp.conf b/debian/gbp.conf
index b24011a15..904e0e5d0 100644
--- a/debian/gbp.conf
+++ b/debian/gbp.conf
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 pristine-tar = True
 debian-branch = debian/master
 upstream-branch = upstream/latest
-upstream-vcs-tag = %(version)s
+#upstream-vcs-tag = %(version)s
 
 [buildpackage]
 sign-tags = True

import upstream repository

gbp import-orig --verbose --upstream-version=3.33.0-4 --filter=.git --filter=.gitignore ~/Documents/gnome-shell-git/
                                                  ^
                                      increase this at each build

disable all patches

commit 31962cfec99808e57404a970c59202c8e40c1c76 (HEAD -> debian/master)
Author: user <user@debian>
Date:   Tue Apr 2 16:38:27 2019 +0200

    disable all debian specific patches

diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 2e1f1ebb9..e69de29bb 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-userWidget-Fix-avatar-size.patch
-layout-Use-custom-actor-for-uiGroup.patch
-texture-cache-Apply-resource-scale-to-the-right-dimension.patch
-theme-improve-legibility-of-error-messages.patch
-st-widget-Add-missing-g_return_val_if_fail.patch
-st-theme-node-transition-Exclude-get_new_paint_state-from.patch
-magnifier-Fix-color-argument.patch
-tweener-Save-handlers-on-target-and-remove-them-on-destro.patch

build

gbp buildpackage

or with pbuilder:

BUILDER=pbuilder gbp buildpackage --git-pbuilder --git-dist=experimental --git-arch=amd64 -nc

install

sudo dpkg -i ../gnome-shell_3.33.0-4-1_amd64.deb ../gnome-shell-common_3.33.0-4-1_all.deb