I'm a little better prepared now and have an orig.tar.gz, a .dsc and a .diff file uploaded to
http://www.callpoint.org/splay/ I have found the tools a little cumbersome so perhaps I am doing something wrong. Hopefully someone will be able to show me a better way. I tried building a deb using pdebuild but although it ran fine the resulting .deb was lost as pbuilder cleared away its stuff. In the end I had to manually untar the base.tar.gz, copy the package stuff and chroot into sid to build the deb and run lintian. Is there a better way or am I going to have to get a full sid up and running (maybe using uml)? I'd like to upgrade from woody but I've so much installed that a dist-upgrade would take ages over my dialup and I'd worry about losing all the tweaks and fixes I've made over the last couple of years. A further problem is that the chrooted sid doesn't have any sound. I haven't altered any code yet (other than replacing some iostream/iomanip.h with the stdlib alternatives) but if someone is willing to upload this, please test it with any handy mp3. Cheers John