On 4/12/06, Gerhard Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > First posting and > i need a little help from friends;-) > > I have a package which is almost "debian ready", the debian dir exist > and necessary files in there. > > But there is no changelog, only a changelog.in as a template.
the debian/changelog should be maintained by hand, there is no such thing as a generated debian/changelog (which is not broken). > A run of debuild at this moment fails, cause there is no changelog. OK > > Then i run autogen.sh which builds a changelog from the above template. Or i > create a new with dch --create foo bar autogen does not have to do with debian/changelog; dch is fine (did you used dh_make? is easier that way) > If then build only the binarys with: > debuild binary > it's all ok. I wonder how is that possible > Not ok is if i wish to build also the source packages. > If i run debuild without parameters (or dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc > -rfakeroot) then the generated changelog is deleted by a process of > dh_clean and debuild bleats about missing changelog (which is deleted by > himself) the debian/rules makefile should not act upon the debian directory, least on the debian/changelog (except the clean target which should only delete the package build directory debian/<packagage>), but should make changes to the package itself (if needed - e.g. a patch is needed) > I've googled a lot but never found a solution. Neither in devscripts doc > or new maintainer guide. NO TOOL SHOULD AUTOMATICALLY CHANGE THE CHANGELOG AT BUILD TIME > At the moment i found the reason for this: only one, you use a broken model > Anyone who could point me to the right way? dh_make and change the templates by hand; erase the ones you don't need (don't worry, debhelper has the templates strored and should be easy to add them when you will need them in the future) -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
