On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:13:06AM +1000, Brendon Costa wrote: > I have been looking on the web, but have found little in the way of > tutorials on how to create a debian source package. I have created a > binary package for my project (EDoc++: http://edoc.sourceforge.net/), > but want to create a source package and then build the binary one from this. > > Does anyone here know of a link where there is information on doing this > sort of thing? I couldn't believe google didn't come up with anything as > I am sure this is a VERY common way of creating debian packages.
It's *really* common -- pretty much every upload into Debian has to provide the source package. You just run 'dpkg-buildpackage -S' in the unpacked tree and it'll do all the usual "dpkg-buildpackage" kind of things and produce a source package including a .changes file. If you want to get a bit lower level, 'dpkg-source -b <dir>' will just build the diff/dsc. Manpages, as usual, will give you all the dirty details. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]