Break out all the stuff that needs to be different for Debian into separate files
mercurial-server
mercurial-server gives your developers remote read/write access to
centralized Mercurial repositories using SSH public key authentication; it
provides convenient and fine-grained key management and access control.
http://www.lshift.net/mercurial-server.html
Copyright (C) 2008-2010 LShift Ltd.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
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.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
Though mercurial-server is currently targeted at Debian-based systems such
as Ubuntu, other users have reported success getting it running on other
Unix-based systems such as Red Hat. Running it on a non-Unix system such as
Windows is not supported. You will need root privileges to install it.
The best way to install mercurial-server is using your package management
system - there are pre-built .deb files on the website. However, there is
some provision for installing it directly. On Debian based systems such as
Ubuntu, use the command
sudo make setup-adduser
On Red Hat and possibly other variants of Unix, try
sudo make setup-useradd
See doc/manual.docbook for the rest of the documentation.
Paul Crowley, paul@lshift.net, 2010