Xavier Calbet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have had problems with the regular
> building of packages with dpkg-buildpackage, etc.
> When I reach the "..as described in the
> new maintainer guide.." I get lost. Does any
> novice
> really find this guide useful?
Well, I had never built a Debian package before, when I built my first
package for the 770.
If you want to say where you get lost, I'd be happy to try to explain.
> I also get lost in the "but removing lots of stuff
> that the 770 doesn't need or can't
> handle" because I do not know what the 770
> cannot handle, unless I do trial and error
> (and of course that takes forever).
OK. The only files I think you need are the following.
changelog - This should follow the format specified by the NM guide,
but you are free to put as much or as little actual information as you
like. The debian-changelog mode for Emacs makes it trivial to get the
format right.
compat - I've actually no idea about this; I just left it as generated
by dh_make.
control - Easiest by example:
Source: guile-gnome-dev
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Neil Jerram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.0)
Standards-Version: 3.6.0
Package: guile-gnome-dev
Architecture: any
Depends: maemo
Description: Guile language bindings for the GNOME platform
Guile language bindings for the GNOME platform
copyright - Per NM guide. (Tedious, but important for free software.)
docs - Any files that you want to be installed in
$prefix/share/doc/<package>, like this:
AUTHORS
NEWS
README
info - Not sure, but probably not needed.
rules - As generated by dh_make, plus the two changes described in my
previous email.
> By the way I am trying to build the deb packages
> for perl/PDL which should make the Nokia770
> a powerful calculator with graphics. I already
> have the code running on the Nokia 770.
Sounds fun; good luck with the packaging.
Neil
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