First, I'm not a DD, just I try to maintain some packages. So don't take my advices as facts.
Robin Cornelius wrote: > Hi everyone, trying to create a new debian package but have a few > queries. I'm trying to create a new package for an app that i use that > I would like to see in debian, and hopefully in the longterm become a > DD. I have not yet filed a ITP on WNPP. > > The first issue i had was getting my man page to be found in the > debianised source. I could not find this documentation anywhere but it > seems that just having my manpage named debian/qavimator.6 was not > enough i had to also have a file debian/manpages that lists the > manpages to be included, eg contained "debian/qavimator.6". Have i > just misunderstood the documentation (new maintainers guide and policy > reference), or have there been changes to dh_installman ? Seems you are doing it right, to me. > Second issue is how do I add a binary file, eg an icon (xpm), to the > source tree?. The applicaiton is a X11 QT app and so it would be nice > to have a menu icon but upstream does not have one. Clearly the ideal > situation is to get upstream to add one but untill that happens is it > possible to just add an icon to the source tree with out > "unrepresentable changes" messages when running dpkg-buildpackage ? If you look in the archive of this list, you will see a thread talking about including binaries in the debian diff.gz. One of the way is to create a file encoded with uuencode. Have a look there, it's quite extensive. But by the way, .xpm files are text based, no? > What is the correct policy for doing this? Do i need to split the > package into 2 for arch independent and dependent, the amount of data > is very small so it did not seem worth while. If the data are small, I don't see the point of doing it. > One final thing, upstream only has a SVN tree, it is not making > tarball releases. Is this an issue? One of the issue I see is that there wont ever be any working watch file in your project. That's for sure. > I can try to work with them to see > if they will do it, but if not should i create a "friendly fork?" > > Many thanks for advise > > Robin A fork only to have a tarball on a site? I don't think this is needed. I don't know what to do in that case, but I would just create a orig.tar.gz with the date of the checkout in the name of the archive, and talk about it maybe in a README.Debian. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]