Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm having some trouble in packaging a program called "esms". It only >consists of a single binary-all (perl) file that must go on >/usr/bin/esms. The problem is that the package is created without it, >here's a snapshot of an alienized package: [...] >install: build > dh_testdir > dh_testroot > dh_clean -k > dh_installdirs > > # Add here commands to install the package into debian/tmp. > install -d debian/tmp/usr/bin > install -m755 -o root -g root `pwd`/esms `pwd`/debian/tmp/usr/bin/esms
You aren't using DH_COMPAT=2 or 3, are you? When that is set, the various debhelper commands (like dh_installdocs, which is installing your documentation, and dh_builddeb, which calls dpkg to construct the .deb itself) use debian/<package-name> rather than debian/tmp. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
