> Hi, Kenneth! Hi!
Boy, all of you who wanted to see how the Java package-building process goes are sure getting to see a lot - mostly my mistakes. ;-) I think my problem here is that the only .deb I have messed with before was the mutt .deb, and I am beginning to understand that it does things differently than many other debs because (I think) of the way it wants to patch the upstream sources. I didn't account properly for this, sorry. I have redone my whole package using dh_make, so hopefully it will be better now. > - You don't have to write gcc here. It's build-essential package. > - You don't need to use jikes when you must use j2sdk1.3. Understood. > - The software which depend on non-free software should go to contrib > section (write contrib/devel (or contrib/libs) at control file). I've put it in contrib/libs. > - Debian specific files(only build_instructions.txt?) should be in > debian/ directory. > But do you know uupdate? > > - Upstream directory name seems nbio-1.4. You can build source package > like nbio_1.4-1.orig.tar.gz. I recommend you to use upstream name. > > - In generally, source package provide complete upstream file > (*.orig.tar.gz) and diff file (*.diff.gz). Why don't you provide > complete upstream file? Do you know dh_make which help making debian > pacakge? If you don't know it, please try it. Hmm. I did not even realize I was including build_instructions.txt in my package (it was just supposed to be "notes to self" in my top-level CVS directory). Oops. As far as what it says - ignore it. I've removed it from the package. The same mutt-related misunderstanding with the build instructions also accounts for the missing *.orig.tar.gz and *.diff.gz files. They exist now and I think they are correct. Everything is much clearer now that I understand how dh_make and uupdate are my friends. ;-) > Could you try again? Yes. Hopefully, this time it will be closer to correct than the last three times. ;-) Again, the package is at: http://www.cedar-solutions.com:70/ftp/debian/testing/java/ ftp://cedar-solutions.com/debian/testing/java/ Thanks for your patience and all of your comments. KEN -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Personal Homepage: http://www.skyjammer.com/~pronovic/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
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