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

binary vs "real debian" packages

2008-02-29 Thread 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 putting packages into the repo an