Hello, On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Nithi Anantham wrote: > Currently i am doing my B.E final year project in MAEMO ( Mobile > Application Platform for Nokia internet tablets) embedded linux > development. To start with this platform i have chosen to create an > scientific calculator and successfully came through the GTK+/ C. I > have created GUI with enough signals to perform the operations. Now i > have to convert my source ( In C ) into an debian package.
Welcome to packaging for Debian!
Depending on the complexity of your program you probably already have
a chain like "configure, make, make install".
At all points of time you should be reading the Debian Maintainer's
Guide (also "maint-guide" as a Debian package). At most points of
time you can ask for help on the Debian mailing list debian-mentors or
on the IRC channel #debian-mentors on irc.debian.org.
The basic structure of a debian source package is:
1. Upstream source (in your case your own source) which is
packed as pkgname_a.b.orig.tar.gz where a.b. is the version
number
2. A pngname_a.b-c.diff.gz which contains the stuff you add
to the upstream source for packaging requirements.
3. A "signature" file pkgname_a.b-c.dsc which contains signatures
of these two files authenticated by the person making the
package.
You will not in general create these "by hand" --- except the first
which you have anyway created. :-)
The tools to build packages in debian begin with "build-essential"
which you must install. Other such packages are mentioned below.
When you unpack these source packages (download any typical small
source package with "apt-get source pkgname" to have a look), you will
get a directory of the form pkgname-a.b which contains the original
upstream source with the patch in the diff.gz applied. In particular,
there will be a sub-directory of pkgname-a.b called "debian/" which
contains the Debian packaging information. (In fact, many .diff.gz's
only contain this subdirectory).
The program "dh-make" will help you to create a typical "debian/"
directory which uses "debhelper" toolkit for packaging. Other
alternatives are possible.
This much should be enough to get you started (and it is getting late
as well!). As I said above, read the documentation and don't hesitate
to ask on the appropriate forums.
Regards,
Kapil.
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