On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 03:49:19PM +1000, Neale Banks wrote:
> > I thought had documented it but he denied it. Too bad, so sorry!
>
> Ah, that explains the subsequent silence. But it was a nice dream, while
> it lasted.
>
> I'll add my vote to any proposal to create documentation of correct usage
> of debian/rules, dpkg-buildpackage etc for those of us who have the
> occasional need/desire to rebuild from the source packages.
>
Isn't this documented on the New Maintainer's Guide? I did write
an article, quite some time ago related to source building, a written both
in English and in Spanish, I'm afraid it seems only the Spanish version
was published (in www.openresources.com). However, I'm setting it up in
http://www.dat.etsit.upm.es/~jfs/debian/doc/making-packages (en/ for the
english version and es/ for the Spanish one).
If others feel it's intersting I will translated it from LaTeX to
debiandoc (there is a version of the spanish version in linuxdoc SGML) and
publish it in the DDP (although I think debiandoc does not support inline
images). It might also need some update regarding the new tools in Debian
that appeared after the article was published.
Best regards
Javi
