Hi everyone, trying to create a new debian package but have a few queries. I'm trying to create a new package for an app that i use that I would like to see in debian, and hopefully in the longterm become a DD. I have not yet filed a ITP on WNPP.
The first issue i had was getting my man page to be found in the debianised source. I could not find this documentation anywhere but it seems that just having my manpage named debian/qavimator.6 was not enough i had to also have a file debian/manpages that lists the manpages to be included, eg contained "debian/qavimator.6". Have i just misunderstood the documentation (new maintainers guide and policy reference), or have there been changes to dh_installman ? Second issue is how do I add a binary file, eg an icon (xpm), to the source tree?. The applicaiton is a X11 QT app and so it would be nice to have a menu icon but upstream does not have one. Clearly the ideal situation is to get upstream to add one but untill that happens is it possible to just add an icon to the source tree with out "unrepresentable changes" messages when running dpkg-buildpackage ? What is the correct policy for doing this? Do i need to split the package into 2 for arch independent and dependent, the amount of data is very small so it did not seem worth while. One final thing, upstream only has a SVN tree, it is not making tarball releases. Is this an issue? I can try to work with them to see if they will do it, but if not should i create a "friendly fork?" Many thanks for advise Robin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
