Dear All, I want to make a debian package (and later even make it into the Debian distribution) of one of my own (GPL-ed) software.
What are the documents & tools that I must read? The Debian New Maintainers guide suppose that I debianize annother program. But I do not want to patch my program (in the sense of making a patch file) but to release the next version so that it will be debianisable. For what it's worth, the package & program I am working on is Guis. See http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/guisdoc.html (unfortunately, I am in the process of changing hosting for my domain, so there could be temporary DNS problems at end of this week -ie around september 25-28th 2002). Guis is a Gtk2 widget server. It accept lua statements as requests to build Gtk widgets, and output XML or Sexpr events. It communicate with the using application thru pipes. Guis does not use autoconf/automake. I really don't like these programs, and hope to just stay with a plain GNUmakefile. Guis use CLISP at compile time (to generate some C glue code for lua, from lispy API *.defs descriptive files), and links with Lua & Gtk2. So it is not a usual Debian package. The step by step instructions assume an original .tar.gz file. But this is not my situation: I am the [upstream] author of the package and want to adapt it so that it is Debianized without patches! Any clues or references to read? regards. -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ email: basile<at>starynkevitch<dot>net alias: basile<at>tunes<dot>org 8, rue de la Faïencerie, 92340 Bourg La Reine, France
