Debian package skeleton

2014-04-19 Thread Andy
Hello all, Is there one or more 'skeletons' folder hierarchies, to create Debian packages? If yes, where can I download them? I am thinking something like a folder structure, with some configuration files and a Makefile, where I can just extract a TGZ archive in a folder, edit the

Re: Debian package skeleton

2014-04-19 Thread John Hasler
What you ask for can't really be done. Upstream practices are too unpredictable. Install debhelper, read the maintainer's guide and the Debian policy manual, find an existing package that is similar to the one you want to create, and modify the files from it. For most packages debhelper and the

Re: Debian package skeleton

2014-04-19 Thread Per Andersson
Hi! Maybe you want to look at the packages packaging-tutorial and hello. You can also download any package and look at the packaging with apt-get source package. It seems that dh-make can be what you seek also, it does not configure everything for you though. You will need to configure and tune

Re: Debian package skeleton

2014-04-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 19 apr 14, 13:14:09, Andy wrote: Hello all, Is there one or more 'skeletons' folder hierarchies, to create Debian packages? If yes, where can I download them? I am thinking something like a folder structure, with some configuration files and a Makefile, where I can just extract a