I just wanted to contribute a note: instead of alien'ing your package to get a listing of it's contents, use the 'dpkg -c' command on your deb.
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 02:13:31PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > Hello, > > 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: > > bash-2.03$ tar -xvzf esms-0.9.0-2.tgz > ./ > ./usr/ > ./usr/bin/ > ./usr/share/ > ./usr/share/doc/ > ./usr/share/doc/esms/ > ./usr/share/doc/esms/copyright > ./usr/share/doc/esms/changelog.Debian.gz > bash-2.03$ > -- ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Matthew Danish email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;; ;; OpenPGP public key available from: 'finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]' ;; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
