Dear all, I run Debian 2.1r4 on a PC with an amd486 120 MHz and 16Mb of ram.
I also recompile last release of Ckermit. To manage installed software, I would like make a package with this soft. I found also package sources (.dsc, orig.tar.gz and diff.gz files) of a previous release (It is always easiest to learn new material with a good example) and put it in "/mydir". In this directory I do: dpkg-source ckermit....dsc and work fine by creating the directory "/mydir/ckermit-193". In this last directory I try to launch dpkg --build ... which failled because it did not find DEBIAN/control file (which stand in debian/control) (a symbolic link DEBIAN -> debian did not help because this time a parsing error on Depends: ${shlibs:DEPENDS}). What do I forgot to do? I download and study all packaging documentation (also Debian policy) and try to find a FAQ but nothing to clarify my mind as a case study procedure for instance. Can you help me? Thanks in advance for your help. Joel PS: Ckermit is just a case study, I would really like to learn to manage Debian packages as well as I use to do professionally.