Hello, regarding my question number 9: I've found the answer myself and put the man page file in a directory debian/manpages and created a file debian/birdie.manpages.
But I've two additional questions, which refer to you intial comments. 10. the patch should have a proper dep3-style header What do you mean by that? Is there a way to check the formatting of patch files? 11. why is this patch needed? why are you creating the file in the name of the upstream authors? Not doing this results in the following error during package build: kay@notepad:~/Debian/birdie/birdie-1.1-2/birdie-1.1$ debuild -us -uc dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc dpkg-buildpackage: source package birdie dpkg-buildpackage: source version 1.1-2 dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution UNRELEASED dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Kay Abendroth <kay.abendr...@raxion.net> dpkg-source --before-build birdie-1.1 dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64 fakeroot debian/rules clean dh clean dh_testdir dh_auto_clean dh_clean dpkg-source -b birdie-1.1 dpkg-source: info: using source format `3.0 (quilt)' dpkg-source: info: building birdie using existing ./birdie_1.1.orig.tar.gz dpkg-source: info: local changes detected, the modified files are: birdie-1.1/src/config.vala dpkg-source: error: aborting due to unexpected upstream changes, see /tmp/birdie_1.1-2.diff.ko8TCH dpkg-source: info: you can integrate the local changes with dpkg-source --commit dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b birdie-1.1 gave error exit status 2 debuild: fatal error at line 1376: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc failed See also the attached file birdie_1.1-2.diff.ko8TCH Regards, Kay
Description: <short summary of the patch> TODO: Put a short summary on the line above and replace this paragraph with a longer explanation of this change. Complete the meta-information with other relevant fields (see below for details). To make it easier, the information below has been extracted from the changelog. Adjust it or drop it. . birdie (1.1-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low . * Initial release. (Closes: #772739) * XXX * XXX * XXX * XXX Author: Kay Abendroth <kay.abendr...@raxion.net> Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/772739 --- The information above should follow the Patch Tagging Guidelines, please checkout http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/ to learn about the format. Here are templates for supplementary fields that you might want to add: Origin: <vendor|upstream|other>, <url of original patch> Bug: <url in upstream bugtracker> Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/<bugnumber> Bug-Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/bugs/<bugnumber> Forwarded: <no|not-needed|url proving that it has been forwarded> Reviewed-By: <name and email of someone who approved the patch> Last-Update: <YYYY-MM-DD> --- /dev/null +++ birdie-1.1/src/config.vala @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +// -*- Mode: vala; indent-tabs-mode: nil; tab-width: 4 -*- +/*- + * Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Birdie Developers (http://birdieapp.github.io) + * + * This software is licensed under the GNU General Public License + * (version 3 or later). See the COPYING file in this distribution. + * + * You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public + * License along with this software; if not, write to the + * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, + * Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. + * + * Authored by: Ivo Nunes <ivoavnu...@gmail.com> + * Vasco Nunes <vascomfnu...@gmail.com> + */ + +namespace Constants { + public const string DATADIR = "/usr/share"; + public const string PKGDATADIR = "/usr/share/birdie"; + public const string VERSION = "1.1"; + public const string GETTEXT_PACKAGE = "birdie"; + + // translatable strings for the .desktop file + private const string GENERIC_NAME = _("Twitter Client"); + private const string COMMENT = _("Twitter client for Linux"); +}
