> Ok, I'm trying to follow the maint-guide to build my own package. The problem > is that the doc is assuming that dh_make is doing things that it isn't doing, > like creating the .orig dir and making a default changelog entry. I followed > the damn thing exactly, so whats going on? Should I be able to run dh_make > and have it build me a package by running dpkg-buildpackage (not a very > *good* package, mind you)?
I spent some 4-5 hours yesterday with the same problem. I just couldn't get the thing to work (v0.12). It produced faulty rules-files etc. I then stumbled upon `debmake' (3.5.20 from unstable) which did everything I wanted. --Tomas Pihl Another GNU/Debian user [EMAIL PROTECTED]
