Mr Watson and others. Comments inline,
On Mon, 8 May 2000, Colin Watson wrote: |On Mon, 08 May 2000 at 10:09:34 +0200, Fredrik Steen wrote: |> I have uploaded these files to: http://www.stone.nu/debian/dl/ |> |> mp3html_1.3.8-1.diff.gz |> mp3html_1.3.8-1.dsc |> mp3html_1.3.8-1_i386.changes |> mp3html_1.3.8-1_i386.deb |> mp3html_1.3.8.orig.tar.gz | |The main problem that's going to bite you as soon as this starts to be |ported to other Debian architectures is that you don't seem to be |actually building the mp3html binary here; $(MAKE) is commented out in |debian/rules, yet the binary is there. If it was in the upstream |distribution then you'll have to remove it in the build stage of |debian/rules (and preferably ask the upstream maintainer to distribute a |clean source tree); in any case you certainly need to build it yourself, |since otherwise your package will only work for one architecture. I have taken care of this. So now the tree is clean without any precompiled binaries. |Another thing is I don't think you need to duplicate mp3html.1 in |debian/; it's already in the top-level directory of the source tree. Good point there, I have removed the mp3html.1 file in the debian directory. | |The most awkward thing to fix is that the .orig.tar.gz is a bit of a |mess: it has a lot of debian/ stuff in it, whereas it's supposed to be |the same as the tarball the upstream author distributed if at all |possible. If you don't keep an upstream tarball (in an .orig.tar.gz) or |an original source tree (in an .orig directory) around then the build |process can end up producing something like this. | |What I'd do here to fix this up is get a fresh upstream tarball, unpack |it, and rename the tarball to mp3html_1.3.8.orig.tar.gz. Then copy only |the files in debian/ that weren't created by debian/rules from the tree |you have at the moment (I think that should be debian/changelog, |debian/control, debian/copyright, debian/docs, and debian/rules itself). |At this point you should have a directory tree that, at the minimum, |looks like this: | | . -+- mp3html_1.3.8.orig.tar.gz | \- mp3html-1.3.8/ | +- (stuff) | \- debian/ | \- (stuff) | |Now change into the mp3html-1.3.8/ directory and run 'debuild' or |'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot' or whatever way you normally build |packages. What you should end up with is an .orig.tar.gz that's exactly |the same as what the mp3html author distributed, and a Debian diff |(.diff.gz) that contains exactly your changes (in this case, the five |files in debian/ mentioned above, though sometimes it involves changes |to the main source tree as well to fix up filenames and the like). It |sounds picky, but it makes life a lot easier in certain circumstances. | |If you take a few moments to learn about tools like 'uscan' then you |should find that it's a lot easier to maintain this system than it is to |patch it up when you get it wrong; using 'dh_make' from the start will |also get this right, if you don't delete the extra .orig directory it |gives you. | |Good luck! | |-- |Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I spent a couple of days reading the docs and checked how other people do. Now I think I got a valid package with all important files ofcourse I can't be 100% sure but I have checked it many times and tried to install it to many diffrent boxes (colleuges). I have uploaded the packages and other files to: http://www.stone.nu/debian/dl/ Thank you for your time. --- Fredrik Steen,
