On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Sanjeev Gupta wrote: > I am starting off on packaging some .debs for programs I have installed in > my /usr/local . I am hitting a stopper due to conflicting documentation > on debmake, debhelper, etc, and confusion on which is better. Mr Will > Lowe's documentation at Developer's Corner at debian seems out-of-date.
The docs are very poor to say the least. I think that coding is important but docs are as well. Nobody can use a undocumented piece of code unless they read the source and usually by the time you understand the code you could've written an equivalent piece of software yourself. :< Try: http://www.debian.org/~elphick/manuals.html/maint-guide/ch-start.html It's pretty good but there needs to be an advanced section. I think debhelper is being maintained and debmake isn't or something like that. > The package I am currently looking at is cheops, single binary, with files > in lib and share. Once started, I can package for the two architectures I > have, i386 and sparc. > > Also, a pointer to PGP (insofar as required to sign packages) would be > appreciated. There was a faq posted by [EMAIL PROTECTED] awhile ago, I lost the url. Try the Debian Weekly news(it was in there): http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/ +---------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | R Garth Wood | Making waves... | | Stormix Technologies Inc. | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
