I ITP A+, a programming language and development environment (http://aplusdev.org). It will be called aplus-fsf. I have not packaged anything before and I have some questions. The new maintainer's guide was helpful but did not cover these areas.
1) The upstream sources put files in non-standard directories. I am moving them to standard locations, e.g., docs to /usr/share/doc/aplus-fsf. I did this by adding to the debian/rules install target code like the following: INSTDIR = $(CURDIR)/debian/aplus-fsf/usr mv $(INSTDIR)/doc/* $(INSTDIR)/share/doc/aplus-fsf/ rmdir $(INSTDIR)/doc I've successfully created a .deb file and see that it has the right paths, so what I've done works, but may not be optimal. Is there a better way to do this? 2) A bunch of shared libraries are created. dh_shlibdeps gives an error like this for each one: dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find any packages for /home/aplus/src/aplus-fsf-4.18/debian/aplus-fsf/usr/lib/libIPC.so.0 (libIPC.so.0) What does that mean? What packages is it looking for? -- Neil L. Roeth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
