2010/3/28 Rogério Brito <rbr...@ime.usp.br>: > Dear Joachim, > > On Mar 28 2010, Wuttke, Joachim wrote: >> $ cat rules >> #!/usr/bin/make -f >> # -*- makefile -*- >> %: >> dh $@ >> >> If these arcane lines must be modified, I would be most >> grateful for help - > > You are correct that these lines may be confusing, since there is a lot > of abstraction and implicit behaviour done by those simple and terse > lines. > > Using debhelper's version 7 is a good thing for just getting the > packaging working when you know about some of the implementation details > (and, here, the implementation details matter). > > I would suggest that you take a notice on Sune Vuorela's e-mail: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2009/05/msg00614.html > > You may want to use the debhelper-version-5-style debian/rules file, so > that you can see it better what is happening and which file goes where.
You can also set DH_VERBOSE in debian/rules to see what commands debhelper is running: http://manpages.debian.net/man/7/debhelper http://manpages.debian.net/man/1/dh debhelper has really good documentation, check out the manual pages where you are confused. I'd strongly recommend watching Joey Hess' talk at DebConf9: https://penta.debconf.org/dc9_schedule/events/418.en.html -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e13a36b31003281653gff43d32te2fdaf4f2226f...@mail.gmail.com
