> Dear Gavin Henry, Hi Chris!
> I didn't follow your whole discussion, but if you have time I would highly > appreciate if you could put all this information together at a well-findable > place (maybe: extend https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide ?) > > Reason: > I'm probably going to search for similar information in the near future =) > > > Regards > Chris > > PS: This is not meant as a demand. Rather a "hint" that the work will pay of > at least for one more person. ... I just figured it's very difficult to > transport "nice" in letters. Everything sounds so demanding :/ I've Cc'd the list, sorry if that wasn't correct. What do you class as "all this information"? Starting from scratch? I'm coming from a Fedora/RH world so I've always wanted to do a Debian package and I am starting to see the flexibility of all the multi-files vs the one spec file I have: https://github.com/SentryPeer/SentryPeer/blob/main/packaging/rpm/sentrypeer.spec https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2026516 <- main way to get a package listed for inclusion I'm pretty much done with the Fedora spec file, but I now understand about how the rules/control file can do all the requirements for you (if using autoconf?). My main issue was having zero knowledge of the main terms, so this page was hard to approach: https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging but this was good (as well as doing the RPM spec first and seeing how others have done their rules file): https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/index.en.html I think the main issue is getting your head around "creating the first set of files" and then picking how to build it all moving forward. Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. https://sentrypeer.org
