Christoph Haas wrote: > Hi, Pádraig... > > you accidentally replies personally to me instead of sending a followup > to the mailing list.
sorry. > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 12:06:33PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > >>build from the extracted tarball directly with: >> >>dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -tc >> >>How should I create this source package? > > > I see now. You are the actual developer of fslint. Usually there is the > (upstream) developer and a Debian developer is doing the packaging work. > If the upstream provides a debian/ package that has caused a lot of > trouble for me. OK I can remove the upstream one when it gets integrated in case there is any confusion. > Usually there is just the upstream tarball and someone > maintains the debian/ directory seperately. That way you can always see > what special things have been done in the Debian package because a > seperate diff.gz lists them. OK. I presume one can have a blank debian directory? > If you like to maintain the package yourself that'll probably not be a > problem either. Just not very common. I can do that. Even though I'm a debian newbie the package is quite standard. What do I need to do exactly? As far as I can see you want me to provide: fslint_2.15-1.dsc fslint_2.15-1.orig.tar.gz fslint_2.15-1.diff.gz thank you, Pádraig. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
