On 23/04/14 20:24, Matthew Wild wrote:
On 23 April 2014 16:56, Gareth France <gareth.fra...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 23/04/14 08:26, Alan Pope wrote:
Hi Gareth,
On 23 April 2014 08:14, Gareth France <gareth.fra...@gmail.com> wrote:
I have a perl script I wish to publish but doing so seems rather akin to
pulling teeth! I'm trying to package it as an executable but this doesn't
seem to work. Can anyone advise me what format it needs to be in to submit
it, and how I may achieve this.
What's the goal? Make the perl script widely available for people (you
don't know) to discover and install on their systems easily? Or is
this a script something only a few techy people may be interested in?
If the latter, then maybe just put the script on a pastebin, github,
launchpad or other host and point people to it with simple
instructions for downloading and running it.
If the former then you will need to do a little work to learn how to
package it. The documentation is uh.. comprehensive, but there's some
simpler guides like this one:-
http://www.electricmonk.nl/log/2011/09/06/creating-simple-debian-packages/
Cheers,
Al.
I have followed the instructions in the guide you gave me, however the
guidelines for being accepted into the software centre say ' You need to
provide us with the Debian source package – A Debian source package (.dsc,
diff.gz, orig.tar.gzfiles), bundled in an archive file (.tar.gz, .zip,
etc).'
Does this mean just zip up the directories I used to create the deb file?
You can build a source package with 'debuild -S -sa' inside the
package directory. When built, the source package actually consists of
multiple files: the .dsc, .diff.gz or .debian.tar.gz and the
.orig.tar.gz. The instructions are asking you to put those files
together into an archive (tar or zip), just to make it easier to
handle.
If in doubt, you can look at the .dsc file (it's just text) to see the
file listing for the source package.
Regards,
Matthew
.Can nobody help me with this debuild command? It just seems to throw up
endless error messages.
This package has a Debian revision number but there does not seem to be
an appropriate original tar file or .orig directory in the parent directory;
(expected one of cliftontestsuite_0.1.orig.tar.gz,
cliftontestsuite_0.1.orig.tar.bz2,
cliftontestsuite_0.1.orig.tar.lzma, cliftontestsuite_0.1.orig.tar.xz or
Clifton Test Suite v0.1.orig)
continue anyway? (y/n) y
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S -sa
dpkg-buildpackage: source package cliftontestsuite
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.1-1
dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution UNRELEASED
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Gareth <gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk>
dpkg-source --before-build Clifton Test Suite v0.1
dpkg-source: error: syntax error in Clifton Test Suite
v0.1/debian/control at line 9: first block lacks a source field
dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source --before-build Clifton Test Suite
v0.1 gave error exit status 255
debuild: fatal error at line 1364:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S -sa failed
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