On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:23:38PM +0000, Patrick Schleizer wrote: > I am upstream as well as would like to become a debian maintainer some > day. Still learning packaging. > > Due to the luxury of being upstream as well, the upstream source package > can be formatted in any way I wish. [In this case it is a simple package > with shell scripts only.] > > Personally I find it useful to have a folder layout like this: > upstream_source_folder/usr/bin/some_script > upstream_source_folder/usr/bin/another_script > upstream_source_folder/etc/some_config > upstream_source_folder/etc/init.d/some_init > > Those should get installed to /usr/bin/some_script etc. > > Is it possible to simplify packaging? I mean, is it possible to automate > this without using a package.install file? In other words, is it > possible to tell debhelper, "use the > upstream_source_folder/usr/bin/some_script and install it to > /usr/bin/some_script"? The proper way is to write upstream build scripts so that `make install` (and `make install DESTDIR=foo`) would work properly.
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