# For preparing GRASS Debian package run
svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-grass/packages/grass/trunk/debian debiangis
mv debiangis/* .
# in this directory. It will download latest debian configuration files
# from debian Subversion server (http://svn.debian.org).
# The grass debian/ dir is under SVN control so you can't just checkout over
# the top of it from another repo.
# You may need to adapt it to work with GRASS 7 (it's for the latest stable)
# After that, you can build current version of GRASS with
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
# or
debuild binary
# or
debuild -i -uc -us -b -j2
# in main GRASS source directory. After the packages are generated, you can
# install them with
dpkg -i ../*grass*deb
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fixme: DebianGIS has moved to git,
sudo apt-get install git-core
mkdir git && cd git
git clone git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-grass/grass.git
ln -s grass/debian debiangis
how to download just the grass/debian/ directory from that?