Re: Package review and comment wanted

2004-06-08 Thread Bengt Thuree
Frank Küster wrote: You should try to separate non-debian-specific and debian-specific parts, IMO. I have been trying to keep to standard Bourne Shell so it should be ok. I will try to package it in a normal tar file with (bin, etc, etc) not exist or something like this. I ended up having to

Re: Package review and comment wanted

2004-06-08 Thread Bengt Thuree
Frank Küster wrote: You should try to separate non-debian-specific and debian-specific parts, IMO. I have been trying to keep to standard Bourne Shell so it should be ok. I will try to package it in a normal tar file with (bin, etc, etc) not exist or something like this. I ended up having to put A

Re: Package review and comment wanted

2004-06-08 Thread Frank Küster
Bengt Thuree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That depends on the complexity of the installation. In most cases, >> it is >> highly advisable to have a separate Makefile that does the compilation >> and installation, and in debian/rules you only call it with appropriate >> targets and arguments. > ok

Re: Package review and comment wanted

2004-06-08 Thread Frank Küster
Bengt Thuree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That depends on the complexity of the installation. In most cases, >> it is >> highly advisable to have a separate Makefile that does the compilation >> and installation, and in debian/rules you only call it with appropriate >> targets and arguments. > ok

Re: Package review and comment wanted

2004-06-07 Thread Bengt Thuree
>>> for the buppo --version output. And I think it would be handled by cvs >> or subversion, but for the moment I am actually using .deb as my >> revision control > > OK, so you do actually want to have your version information generated > automatically from your revision control stuff. :-) Th

Re: Package review and comment wanted

2004-06-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:01:34AM +0900, Bengt Thuree wrote: > >The version of the debian package you produce is taken from the package's > >topmost changelog entry. For timestamps, you can use touch(1), but I'm > >having trouble coming up with why you'd want to stamp a file to a > >particular >

Re: Package review and comment wanted

2004-06-07 Thread Bengt Thuree
>>> for the buppo --version output. And I think it would be handled by cvs >> or subversion, but for the moment I am actually using .deb as my >> revision control > > OK, so you do actually want to have your version information generated > automatically from your revision control stuff. :-) Th

Re: Package review and comment wanted

2004-06-07 Thread Bengt Thuree
Matthew Palmer wrote: want to move some files in your debian/rules file - a typical example would be moving some scripts to debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/$packagename/examples. You don't use dh_installdirs for that, you use dh_installexamples. I managed to use this one :) *) Should I list

Re: Package review and comment wanted

2004-06-07 Thread Bengt Thuree
Hej Frank, and thank you for very much appreciated comments. I will try to answer them below /Bengt Frank Küster wrote: Did you read the new maintainers guide and the developers' reference? Yes, I read them once, twice, and ten times, but must have some problem with my english apperantly.

Re: Package review and comment wanted

2004-06-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:01:34AM +0900, Bengt Thuree wrote: > >The version of the debian package you produce is taken from the package's > >topmost changelog entry. For timestamps, you can use touch(1), but I'm > >having trouble coming up with why you'd want to stamp a file to a > >particular >

Re: Package review and comment wanted

2004-06-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:17:45PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: > In debian/dirs, you only list the directories that you want to create > with dh_installdirs - e.g. directories that the upstream Makefiles > assumes to be present upon installation, or directories to which you > want to move some files

Re: Package review and comment wanted

2004-06-07 Thread Bengt Thuree
Matthew Palmer wrote: want to move some files in your debian/rules file - a typical example would be moving some scripts to debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/$packagename/examples. You don't use dh_installdirs for that, you use dh_installexamples. I managed to use this one :) *) Should I list the conffil

Re: Package review and comment wanted

2004-06-07 Thread Bengt Thuree
Hej Frank, and thank you for very much appreciated comments. I will try to answer them below /Bengt Frank Küster wrote: Did you read the new maintainers guide and the developers' reference? Yes, I read them once, twice, and ten times, but must have some problem with my english apperantly. That de

Re: Package review and comment wanted

2004-06-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:17:45PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: > In debian/dirs, you only list the directories that you want to create > with dh_installdirs - e.g. directories that the upstream Makefiles > assumes to be present upon installation, or directories to which you > want to move some files

Re: Package review and comment wanted

2004-06-07 Thread Frank Küster
Bengt Thuree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Hej > > I have just created one of my first debian package, and would like to > have some comments on the actual packaging. Did you read the new maintainers guide and the developers' reference? > > Have I missed something? > I am very confused of > *)

Re: Package review and comment wanted

2004-06-07 Thread Frank Küster
Bengt Thuree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Hej > > I have just created one of my first debian package, and would like to > have some comments on the actual packaging. Did you read the new maintainers guide and the developers' reference? > > Have I missed something? > I am very confused of > *)

Package review and comment wanted

2004-06-02 Thread Bengt Thuree
Hej I have just created one of my first debian package, and would like to have some comments on the actual packaging. Have I missed something? I am very confused of *) Should I only use the rules file, or a separate Makefile *) Should I list all the directories in the dirs (including /usr/sbin

Package review and comment wanted

2004-06-02 Thread Bengt Thuree
Hej I have just created one of my first debian package, and would like to have some comments on the actual packaging. Have I missed something? I am very confused of *) Should I only use the rules file, or a separate Makefile *) Should I list all the directories in the dirs (including /usr/sbin) *