I create a debian package using documentation from New Maintainer's
Guide and I am very thankful that this document created. It is really
helpful.
However, I noticed that when I created exactly using that documentation,
I ended up with something strange. It is especially from source which
uses Autoconf and Automake to generate configure and Makefile.
For example,
- The binary will reside on /bin which is should be /usr/bin
- Everything which should be on /usr/{bin,sbin,share,...} installed in
/bin, /sbin /share, ...
This will result error (E) when using lintian.
Then I found that "debian/rules" file should be edited (I add line
number):
<start-quote>
[1] install: build
[2] dh_testdir
[3] dh_testroot
[4] dh_clean -k
[5] dh_installdirs
[6]
[7] # Add here commands to install the package into debian/hbd.
[8] $(MAKE) install prefix=$(CURDIR)/debian/hbd/usr
<end-quote>
I need to add /usr at the last line of line 8 so that the debian package
created will be in the /usr/...
I maybe wrong, so please CMIIW.
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bpdp
