On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 08:46 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > I choosed to learn on a very simple software: minimalist. > That's okay; in fact its one of the best ways I know of to learn about > something new.
:-) > > Especially where to tell the package builder not to use > > 'debian/minimalist/DEBIAN/control' but 'debian/control' ? > DEBIAN/control is created from debian/control (and probably others). > The former is specific to the given build (Arch: i386) whereas the > latter is for the source (Arch: any). If it had been created by dh_make, why wouldn't it find it? > > cp minimalist.pl $(CURDIR)/debian/minimalist > You probably mean $(CURDIR)/debian/usr/bin/ I read (http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-modify.en.html) section 3.1 : [...] Therefore you need to do something else: install the program into a temporary subdirectory from which the maintainer tools will build a working .deb package.... This temporary directory is usually created under your debian/ directory in the unpacked source tree. It is usually called debian/tmp or debian/packagename. [...] And I followed what was suggested by the auto-generated 'rules' file... -- ASPO Infog�rance http://aspo.rktmb.org/activites/infogerance Unofficial FAQ fcolc http://faq.fcolc.eu.org/ LUG sur Orl�ans et alentours. T�l : 02 38 76 43 65 (France)

