question about building a deb package
dear all, in the debian new maintainer's guide: 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 definitely says no--you need to modify the Makefile.am and Makefile.in files yourself. the second paragraph seems to suggest that dh_make does this for you. which paragraph is correct? 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? 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. what is the procedure when the upstream source comes with its own man page that gets installed during the make process? thanks, pete -- The mathematics [of physics] has become ever more abstract, rather than more complicated. The mind of God appears to be abstract but not complicated. He also appears to like group theory. -- Tony Zee's `Fearful Symmetry' PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D
Re: question about building a deb package
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]
