On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 02:14:43AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > in the debian new maintainer's guide:
debian-mentors is probably a better mailing list. > chapter 3: > > Note that if your program uses GNU automake and/or autoconf, meaning > the source includes Makefile.am and/or Makefile.in files, > respectively, you will need to modify those files. > > chapter 3, section 3.1: > > Basically, you need to make the program install in debian/tmp, but > behave correctly when placed in the root directory, ie when installed > from the .deb package. With programs using GNU autoconf, this will be > quite easy, because dh_make will set up commands for doing that > automatically. > > > these two statements seem contradictory. to get the program to install > in debian/tmp, can dh_make automatically do this for you when the > upstream package uses autoconf or not? The first paragraph refers to modifying upstream source in general. For installing in a subdirectory you don't need to modify the source unless it's written badly. > also, section 5.4 (on man pages) isn't very clear. the author simply > says he wrote a manpage, but doesn't say what he had to do to get the > manpage in the package. did he simply replace debian/manpage.1.ex by > what he wrote? or did he have to run dh_installman? Files in debian/ don't get installed by magic. :) You have to use dh_installmanpages or dh_installman (read their respective man pages for the differences) or install it into debian/tmp yourself. > one of the problems i've run into is that the package i'm trying to > debianize comes with a manpage that gets installed by the upstream make > process. lintian didn't seem to recognize this and reported that the > binary has no manpage in my deb package. It probably isn't in the right place. Use 'dpkg -c' on the .deb to find out where it got installed. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
