Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) wrote... > Hi Björn, > > Maybe someone else can give you more details, but in the meantime here > are some useful links (which should have more than enough information > to get you started if you're already familiar with packaging): > > 2011/11/7 Björn Esser <[email protected]>: > > how to write/create man-pages > > See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/SupplementaryFiles#Man_Pages.
nroff is rather complex and error-prone. Therefore I suggest using POD to write manpages although this is frowned upon, hence there's no dh_installpod, hence debian/rules becomes ugly if you want acceptable manpages from POD. And this document recommends the usage of cdbs, something I wouldn't do anymore. > > one source in multiple packages (e.g. somewhat (arch), > > somewhat-doc(no-arch), somewhat-data (no-arch), etc.), removing > > obsolete/not used files from the package > > I've found http://wiki.debian.org/PkgSplit, but that page lets it look > much more scary than it actually is. To me it looks really scary. Nowaday when debian/rules can be as terse as #!/usr/bin/make -f %: dh $@ I'd only recommend instructions that are based on that "debhelper 7" mechanism. Everything else should be seen as legacy, nothing to show to beginners. By the way, I'm looking for a straightforward way using debhelper7 to do upstream's triple-jump (./configure ; make ; make install) to create a set of binary packages from a single source package. Only the configure options are different, and of course I'll have to override dh_auto_configure. At the moment, overrides for dh_auto_configure, dh_auto_build, dh_auto_test, and dh_auto_clean are required, too. With an unpleasant result. Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
