I'm not sure if this is the right group to post to, but I am trying to learn how to make deb packages and I seem to go around in circles confusing myself.
I am following this HowTo http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ and I keep getting errors from lintian and linda that I do not know how to fix. When I was first going through the howto I only deleted the files that they suggest I delete if I wasn't using them, then when I ran lintian or reading it somewhere it said something about deleting the stuff I'm not using. I am new to this whole thing of creating deb packages. I am trying to make a deb file from the source of http://gotmail.sf.net so that they can post it with their sf project files. I will also need to know how to include a "deb" definition for their "make deb" command from the makefile. Right now the makefile has this for the rpm definition so when you run "make rpm" it creates the rpm rpm: tarball rpmbuild --define "_rpmdir `pwd`" -tb $(APPNAME)-$(RELEASE_NUM).tar.gz mv noarch/*.rpm . rmdir noarch I also ran across the pkgwrite utility which I thought would make it easy, but I'm confused by the documentation. http://pkgwrite.sourceforge.net/ Any kind of help, pointing to any tutorials, etc. would be great...I'm not trying to take an easy way out I just am very new to all this and want to do it the right way.
