On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 14:02 +0000, ext Graham Cobb wrote: > On Friday 23 November 2007 12:45:08 Andrea Grandi wrote: > > > I've read, and read, and read again the documentation: > > http://pymaemo.garage.maemo.org/documentation/pymaemo_tutorial/python_maemo > >_howto.html#link22 > > > > but the problem is always the same: generated .deb file doesn't > > contain the binaries :( > > I am by no means an expert on Debian packaging but I do produce about 30 > packages for four different Maemo versions so I have fought against some of > these issues myself and I feel your pain! You may be pleased to know that I > also often find that I think I have done everything right and the logs all > look fine but it turns out the package doesn't contain the files I expected! > > I strongly recommend reading the Debian New Maintainers Guide > (http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/) and the man pages for the debhelper > commands which do the work (such as dh_install).
Then please raise them up here. We have debian developers here and I guess they will help. I'm just not into python packaging but I can help with other things ;-) > > Once again, I post you debian/rules: http://pastebin.ca/794774 > > and debian/control: http://pastebin.ca/794777 > > In your particular case I am confused about how you are trying to get > the > files into the package directories. You do not call either > dh_movefiles or > dh_install in the binary-arch target of your debian/rules (actually > dh_install is there but commented out). > > I suggest you uncomment dh_install and add some > debian/packagename.install > files to control which files are installed into which of the two > packages. > Use the manpage for dh_install. I guess dh_install is a overkill here ? Just install to debian/flickrapi It worked fine for me. I mainly use dh_install if I'm building multiple packages from the same tarball so I install to debian/tmp and dh_install is my hero (-: > Of course, you are creating python libraries so the files you install > will be > different. You may also need to use dh_pysupport and/or dh_pycentral > -- I > don't know anything about python! Or the debian python policy: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/ -- Localization Engineer OSSO - Nokia Multimedia _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
