Thanks to Santiago and Igor for helping me on the non-free distribution question.
My initial group of packages had no lintian errors, and installed without error on my system, so I have uploaded them. I now have some general questions. The upstream Makefiles in all of the the dict packages have a line in the distclean target that removes Makefile and configure. That would make it necessary to run autoconf after make distclean in order to compile again. The Makefiles do _not_ include a rule to run autoconf. I deleted configure from that line in Makefile.in in every case. Is that reasonable? Would it be reasonable to assume that anyone who wanted to recompile the binary from the source package would have autoconf installed? In Monaj's sample rules files, which I have followed closely, directories are typically made one at a time, as: $(make_directory) debian/tmp $(make_directory) debian/tmp/usr $(make_directory) debian/tmp/usr/sbin Since $(make_directory) calls install -d, which creates missing leading directories as required, would there be any problems caused by using one statement, as below, instead of three? $(make_directory) debian/tmp/usr/sbin Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USA PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]