> IMHO, that's one of the problems that beginners packagers have: there are > several docs, which say different things (because they have been written at > > different time and not upgraded) and they often let you alone very soon > > (for > instance, they talk about initial packaging and not about upgrading, whether > it is because of a new upstream release or because of changes in your > packaging).
this is true, and a bit sad, it would be very nice to have this solved ... > build for.... building (in package devscripts) > dch for managing changelog (in package devscripts) ha, ... there is were build, dch and friend are hidden, i was never ablze to finbd them and was searching for them ever since i read in the First package howto that i should use ythem ... > And it's enough to build nice packages (you'll need some utilities like pgp > but be careful since you live in France). i have no problem in becoming a dangerous terrorist, so long as the debian people don't sell me out to the autorithies :) seriously tough, in the new maintainer doc it says that encrypting is not permitted in francebut signature yes ? does anyone know something about it ? apart from that, i have a quite slow machine, and it often take me hours to compile a package, it is quite annoying to have te rebuild everything when some small step at the end of the build process goes bad (like in the gtk package, it compiles a lot and then ask me about sgml2html that i didn't have installed, so i had to install it, wait hours and then another problem occurs. (i use dpkg-buildpackage) also pgp only wait a cerytain tilme for the pass phrase, so i can not let the thing compile at night time, and then wake up in the morning to sign it. Friendly, Sven LUTHER
