Hi Afif, On 29.03.2016 06:43, Afif Elghraoui wrote: > Hi, Fabian, > > Unfortunately, this code built an empty package. I noticed that you > haven't activated the autotools plugin for debhelper for the build to > work.
How the fuck, did I miss this one? > Other points for future reference: > > * even if you cannot use uscan to retrieve the upstream source, you can > still use mk-origtargz in your get-orig-source target, which is what > uscan calls when you indicate "repack" in debian/watch. This saves you > from having to manually parse debian/copyright and repacking the tarball. I used the get-orig script from [1] as a baseline. Didn't know about mk-origtargz. Will definitely used that next time. [1] svn://anonscm.debian.org/svn/debian-med/trunk/package_template > > * If you're writing a manpage, you might prefer to put it in the debian > directory directly rather than add it as a patch to the upstream source. > You can install it there by naming it in debian/manpages. > > Thanks for your work on this package. Perhaps upstream would be > interested in the autoconfiscation you did. I am hoping to upstream both the manpage and the autoconf. Thus I did it this way. Thanks a lot for reviewing and sponsoring, Fabian
