On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Octavio Alvarez wrote: > As Paul said, if you download it from Github, you will need to generate the > ./configure script first by running ./autogen.sh, so would have to be > reflected in debian/rules; dh should help with that.
As folks on IRC said, the right option for that is --with autoreconf. > This one includes ./configure already, so you should be able to save your > step one important step and ground one variable down. In Debian we generally prefer to build everything from source, including the build system, so please use dh-autoreconf even with the tarball. I would suggest using the release tarball anyway so that we use the same tarball as upstream. > If you have any problems with the rules or questions about the tarball > itself, drop me an e-mail message. I just ask you not to send the mail > message in HTML but in plain text, so console output keeps its visual > alignment. Octavio, could you create an OpenPGP key and sign your tarballs with it? Some links: http://keyring.debian.org/creating-key.html https://we.riseup.net/debian/openpgp-best-practices -- 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/CAKTje6EtpOQ7Rny7o6OSNt-cap3pUdSUyj=fk8ffxe3rshc...@mail.gmail.com
