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

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 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
>>> 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

2004-06-08 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

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) *

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 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
>>> 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

2004-06-08 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