On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 08:35:20PM +0200, Samuel Abels wrote: > I've build a debian package and dpkg-buildpackage works fine. > The program's "debian" directory can be found > here: > http://sv.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gpostman/gpostman/debian/ > > Anyway, Lintian shows up several problems. > > (1) E: gpostman: FSSTND-dir-in-usr usr/doc/ > > I know that the documentation shouldn't be in /usr/doc but in > /usr/share/doc instead. > I don't want to change the configure.in and automake scripts, so I was > wondering if there is a debhelper to move all the documentation into it's > proper locations.
Erm, there's always mv(1): you don't need to use debhelper to do everything. All debian/rules is really doing is building up a filesystem tree, and you can use standard shell utilities to manipulate that. Can't you pass the --docdir parameter to configure, though? > Or is there a better way to do this? > Will I have to create a postinst script? No, not for this at any rate. > (2) W: gpostman: extra-license-file usr/doc/gpostman/COPYING.gz > > I have no idea. I have only one file in my package directory, which must > remain there for source (tarball) distributions. > Is there a way to tell dpkg to just skip this file or something? Just remove it from the filesystem tree using rm. > (3) E: gpostman: changelog-file-not-compressed ChangeLog > > The problem is, if I "gzip -9" the change-log, dpkg-buildpackage will quit > with an error, so I just don't know how to do it. You need to 'gzip -9' it in debian/rules. (In this case, dh_compress will work too if it's installed in /usr/share/doc rather than /usr/doc.) Debian policy also requires that upstream changelogs be /usr/share/doc/<package>/changelog.gz, rather than ChangeLog.gz (or at least be a symlink to the latter). Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
