On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 02:13:58PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I am trying to package a library whose upstream is located at > http://sourceforge.net/projects/fortranposix > > > I already read the libpkg-guide, maint-guide. This problem was not > discussed in any of them. I googled and also asked in the irc about this > problem. > > There were no errors/warnings when I checked the final packages with > linda -i and lintian -i. But when I did dpkg -c, there are no libraries > in the packages.
maybe it's just something wrong within your debian/<package>.{install,dirs,whatever} files (if you're using debhelper scripts [...] > $dpkg -c libfortranposix0-dev_0.1-1_i386.deb > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-07-09 13:46:00 ./ > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-07-09 13:46:00 ./usr/ > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-07-09 13:45:59 ./usr/bin/ > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-07-09 13:45:59 ./usr/sbin/ /usr/sbin and /usr/sbin are useless, don't create them. They look like the default entries for the dirs file created by dh_make :) [...] > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rajulocal/practice/fortranposix-0.1' > dh_testdir > dh_testroot > dh_installchangelogs CHANGES > dh_installdocs > dh_installexamples > dh_installman > dh_link > dh_strip > dh_compress > dh_fixperms > dh_installdeb > dh_shlibdeps > dh_gencontrol > dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${shlibs:Depends} > dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${misc:Depends} > dh_md5sums > dh_builddeb > dpkg-deb: building package `libfortranposix0-dev' in > `../libfortranposix0-dev_0.1-1_i386.deb'. > dpkg-deb: building package `libfortranposix0' in > `../libfortranposix0_0.1-1_i386.deb'. > signfile fortranposix_0.1-1.dsc can't see dh_install in the above list, might be the problem? Could you eventually put your debian/* scrips somewhere to give them a look? -- mattia :wq! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]