Re: binary vs "real debian" packages

2008-02-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:05:58PM -0800, William Francis a écrit : > > my contents are not source (configure, make, etc), rather I'm more > interested in the preinst/postinst scripts, the Depends part of the > control file, a few config files and placing a few scripts on the > filesystem that req

Re: binary vs "real debian" packages

2008-02-29 Thread Ben Finney
"Shaun Jackman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The orig file would contain all the files not in the debian/ > directory, and the diff file would contain all the files in the > debian/ directory. More accurately, the 'foo-1.2.3.orig.tar.gz' file would contain the "upstream from the perspective of D

Re: binary vs "real debian" packages

2008-02-29 Thread Shaun Jackman
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 3:05 PM, William Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Further, I understand the concept of an upstream provider and > understand that I don't have one in this case, unless I sort of fake > it somehow. Is that wise or is there a well understood method of > having an .

Re: binary vs "real debian" packages

2008-02-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* William Francis: > I've built a few debian "binary" style packages [1] but the maintainer > of my local repository is asking that I have all the "proper" debian > files, like the .dsc, .orig, .diff, .changes, etc so some how he can > sleep better at night or something. He likes dupload for putti