On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:09:10PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:35:52PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > [...] > > Things are getting better. It now puts something into the .debs, and > the dependencies are getting there too. > > > Ok, the first remark is, since modcaml is not a native debian package > > (that is one which is developed only for debian especially), it is best > > to have the debian stuff in a separate .diff.gz file, even if you > > maintain the debian directory in the same CVS as your upstream tarball. > > Also it is best not to ship the debian directory in your released > > tarballs. > > So at the moment I have a MANIFEST file and my Makefile just builds > the source distribution from this. That's fine - I can omit the > debian/ subdirectory from the source distribution this way. > > I'm not really sure where/how Debian builds the > `modcaml_1.0.0-1.tar.gz' file (which is nothing to do with me - > dpkg-buildpackage makes this itself somehow). So I'm not really sure > how to achieve the separation of debian into a patch file this > way. Also how to remove the CVS/ subdirectories which it mistakenly > adds to this file.
You put a copy of your released tarballs into the directory where the modcaml-1.0.0 directory is. You call this one modcaml_1.0.0.orig.tar.gz (mind the _ which is not a -). Friendly, Sven Luther
