Question about making architecture-independent fonts package

2002-02-15 Thread Matt Chisholm
Hello everyone. I'm making a debian package containing some 34 fonts I've made over the past five years. I have successfully created a package which installs and works, by following the instructions in the "Debian New Maintainers Guide." I am modeling my package on the "sharefont" package. I h

Question about making architecture-independent fonts package

2002-02-15 Thread Matt Chisholm
Hello everyone. I'm making a debian package containing some 34 fonts I've made over the past five years. I have successfully created a package which installs and works, by following the instructions in the "Debian New Maintainers Guide." I am modeling my package on the "sharefont" package. I

Re: Help needed making a collection of fonts into a .deb

2001-08-11 Thread Matt Chisholm
Hi. I posted a question here a few days ago about making my fonts into a debian package. I've tried using dh_make on a tarball of my fonts, and this has produced a plethora of files, and I'm somewhat stuck on the "rules" file. I think I can figure this out, if I keep plugging away at it.

Help needed making a collection of fonts into a .deb

2001-08-10 Thread Matt Chisholm
Hello everyone. I'd like to make a Debian package out of about thirty fonts of mine. I read the "Debian New Maintainers' Guide" at http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/, but I am still pretty unclear about how to proceed as that document is tailored for making Debian packages out of programs.

Help needed making a collection of fonts into a .deb

2001-08-10 Thread Matt Chisholm
Hello everyone. I'd like to make a Debian package out of about thirty fonts of mine. I read the "Debian New Maintainers' Guide" at http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/, but I am still pretty unclear about how to proceed as that document is tailored for making Debian packages out of programs.