On 13/08/05, Stan Vasilyev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the comments. I already know how to use debuilder for C++ > programs that install via ./configure, make and install. But my program > is a simple script and it doesn't have any of that. I will try to figure > out how to package it the Debian way. > > 1. The command line options should be a piece of cake. > 2. I had that idea but I couldn't figure out how to do that. The > "source" thing looks promising. > 3 and 4. I will look into removing Bash dependency
In your debian/rules file instead of calling 'make install' you can do iirc: cp script1 $(DESTDIR)/usr/bin/script1 cp script2 $(DESTDIR)/usr/bin/script2 cp docs/* $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/doc For clean IIRC it'd just be "rm -rdf(or whatever suits you best) $(DESTDIR)" I know for a package I maintain (ipkungfu) my rules file just runs a simple script to copy everything in place, and another to use for the clean method. > > Sven Mueller wrote: > > >Stan Vasilyev wrote on 13/08/2005 05:13: > > > > > >>I have just added the Debian package to my website. You can download it > >>from http://home.comcast.net/~deathkrush/ > >> > >>I packaged it manually with dpkg-deb and checked it with lintian. > >> > >> > > > >Please don't do it that way. Please provide a proper debian source > >package. It should be based on your original source tarball and provide > >a debian/rules file with features as defined in the debian policy (and > >the maintainers guide). > > > >Your package should always exist in the form of a debian source package. > >As your software isn't specific to debian, the source package consists > >of your "upstream" tarball, a .dsc file describing the source package > >and a .diff.gz file which contains Debian specific additions. > > > >Please look at the FAQ page for this list: > >http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html where there is > >a question and answer which would be of particular interest for you: > >http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html#firstpackage > > > >Ask here for help if needed, but try to consult the documentation first > >at http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ and > >http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals, especially the document at: > >http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ > > > >I also took a look at your script. I have a few comments on it: > > > >1) The script should be able to handle some commandline options. > > preferably at least "-c <configfile>" to override the filename > > of the config file and "-h"/"--help" do describe its usage. > >2) You say in the INSTALL file that your config file parser. > > But your parser just reads "key=value" pairs from that file. > > why don't you rename the keys in that file appropriately and > > simply source it? Instead of "while read line; do ... done < config" > > do "source config". If you don't want to do that, you can at least > > remove that problem with the trailing newline in the file by using > > "(cat config; echo) | while read line ; do ... done". > >3) It's common practise in Debian packages to avoid depending on bash > > if possible. So it would be nice if you could check wether your > > script works as expected with "ash" as well. ash is far closer to > > a standard POSIX shell than bash, and as far as I saw on first > > glance, it should be able to run your script, which would remove > > the dependency on bash. > >4) Your dependency on bash is even versioned. Is there a particular > > reason why bash 2 (as in oldstable) wouldn't be able to run your > > script? It's especially irritating that you use a versioned > > dependency on bash since your dependency on imagemagick is _not_ > > versioned. If you really need bash >= 3.0, it would be nice for > > people using Sarge if you could make that "bash (>=3) | bash3". > > > >Not trying to put you down, just trying to help you making your package > >better. ;-) > > > >cu, > >sven > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- N Jones Proud Debian & FOSS User Debian Maintainer of: html2ps, ipkungfu, dvorak7min & windowlab
