T o n g <mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com> writes: > On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 20:45:15 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> The typical thing to do in this sort of situation is to document the >> required modification in README.Debian; it's not entirely satisfactory, >> but sometimes there isn't another good option. > Understand & will do. So just create a README.Debian under the debian > directory, parallel to the README provided by the upstream right? If you create debian/README.Debian, debhelper (assuming you're using that) will install it as README.Debian in the /usr/share/doc directory for the first package listed in debian/control. If you have multiple packages built from the same source package, you want to instead name the package debian/<package>.README.Debian, where <package> is the package that should get that documentation. > One more question related to the package I'm building. The upstream > call it pam-ssh-agent-auth, and the tarball is called > pam_ssh_agent_auth-0.9.5.tar.bz2, in which contains a directory named > pam_ssh_agent_auth-0.9.5. But the RFP wants to call it libpam-ssh-agent > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=595817). Not libpam-ssh-agent-auth? Although I suppose that doesn't matter that much. > Let's suppose it'd be called libpam-ssh-agent in Debian, what exactly > should I do to the tarball name and expanded directory name? mv pam_ssh_agent_auth-0.9.5.tar.bz2 libpam-ssh-agent_0.9.5.orig.tar.bz2 Don't do anything at all with the expanded directory name. You don't need to change the tarball in the slightest. > Is there anywhere else that I should also change? Any of these renaming > should be packed in the Debian source package as patches? Nope. The Debian package will be named based on debian/control and debian/changelog, and you just need to be sure the build system can find the *.orig.tar file when building the source package (by naming it in the very specific format <package>_<upstream-version>.orig.tar.<compression>). Everything else is automatic, including unpacking the upstream tarball into the correct directory regardless of what the contents of the upstream tarball look like. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/87zjuc9sl1....@windlord.stanford.edu
