On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 12:35:11AM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Hi all! > Today is the first day of the year, so I manage to create my first > debian package...and it's still libcrypt-simple-perl... > > This is what I've done: > > 1. copied tar.gz to libcrypt-simple-perl-0.06.tar.gz You either needed to specify the -f option to dh_make, as in dh_make -f ../libcryp...tar.gz or to manually rename the pristine upstream tarball to the proper .orig.tar.gz name, which this is not.
> 2. uncompressed it and rename dir to libcrypt-simple-perl-0.06 > 3. cd libcrypt-simple-perl-0.06 > 4. dh-make-perl > I've used it since it creates a debian/rules for perl modules > 5. debuild > > lintian returns this: > W: libcrypt-simple-perl source: native-package-with-dash-version debuild calls dpkg-buildpackage, which couldn't find the .orig.tar.gz, because it wasn't called that, so it made it into a "native package", with no .diff.gz, and a nonpristine "orig" tarball. > And yes, I don't quite understand why, but it doesn't create > .orig.tar.gz and diff.gz files! Not even dh_make create .orig.tar.gz > but onlt a dir libcrypt-simple-perl-0.06.orig at the same level of > libcrypt-simple-perl-0.06 . That directory is used to create the .orig.tar.gz, though I don't understand why dh_make doesn't make the .orig.tar.gz initially, but instead creates that directory and lets dpkg-buildpackage do it. Anyone know why? -- Clear skies, Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
