On 19 June 2010 22:20, Tim Retout <dioc...@debian.org> wrote: > On 19 June 2010 20:53, Anton Piatek <an...@piatek.co.uk> wrote: >> Several people have asked me at various Hants/Surrey LUG events about >> building Debian/Ubuntu packages. I have just started the first of a >> series of blog posts about it, and thought I would post it here for >> those that are interested. >> >> http://www.strangeparty.com/2010/06/17/a-debian-packaging-howto/ > > Noooooooooooooo, not cdbs! ;) > > Most developers prefer debhelper 7 these days, with the 'dh' tool, > because it is easier to customize for unusual situations. Some > packaging teams (like the Debian GNOME team, I think) still use cdbs > because they have specialized requirements. (This is almost certainly > the first comment you would receive on submitting such a package to > the debian-mentors list, apart being asked to clean up the rubbish > added by dh_make.) > > But getting people to package things properly is good, so kudos for > encouraging that. Too often people create hacked-together binary > packages, and foist them on unsuspecting users. > > Anyone interested in contributing to Debian can get hands-on help and > support via Debian's mentors scheme: http://mentors.debian.net/ - > Ubuntu will have a similar scheme.
Well I plan to write more posts as I go, and will be writing about creating debian/rules with debhelper, however I think for a new packager cdbs allows you to get started incredibly quickly and makes very good gueses at most stuff. Of course you may reach a point where you want to get the full control of your build rules, but certainly when I was learning packaging it took me a long time to learn which dh_* helpers I needed and which ones I didn't I appreciate the feedback though (and the fact that you read the post :p ) Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 7401 96D3 E037 2F8F 5965 A358 4046 71FD 74B1 FA37 No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
