On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:06:24PM +0100, Eric Lavarde wrote: > I'm packaging FreeMind (old version somewhere on the upload path), and > the new version is requesting multiple packages. So here two questions: > - is there somewhere a specific description of multi-packaging? the new > maintainer tutorial isn't really explaining much and I couldn't find > anything specific in the developer reference or Debian Policy. I donno, the easiest way is to look at how to do it for an arch + arch-indep split, like a -doc package. You'll have the same Source: stuff in debian/control, and then you'll have multiple Package: lines (each followed by other information: Architecture:, Depends:, ...). For each of those packages, you will need to place files into debian/$pkg/... where ... is the path where you want the file installed. Debian build system will do all of the arch-indep packages together (at least by default, using debhelper, etc.) and presumably all the arch-dep packages together too. So the build-arch: rule should fill debian/$pkg/ directories.
> - more specific question: one of the additional packages is a plugin, > FreeMind itself "requires" Java, the plugin "requires" Java and > FreeMind. Am I supposed to write in the control file that the plugin > does depend on Java, if it's already depending on something that depend > on Java? Nope, Debian is sane like that. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
