On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 08:55:20PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > I'm willing to do any work required to make this happen, although I'm > > not a particularly experienced Debian packager. My previous efforts at > > writing debian/rules and so on have been, hmmm, a bit shoddy. But I > > can learn! > > That is not all so difficult, if the upstream package is well behaved, a > simple run of dh_make will usually provide the bases for a working > package. We prefer to use dpatch though, which enables to have all the > modifications to the upstream tarball in the debian directory, and thus > make the integreation in the subversion directory easier. There is > naturally the ocaml_packaging_policy document which you need to read, it > contain lot of information pertaining to packaging of ocaml related > things, but i guess that you would also need to look a bit at the apache > and perl related documents, but i am not really familiar with them.
OK, I did 'dh_make' and 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot', editing debian/control and a few other files in between. It doesn't really work. The .deb files that I end up with are essentially empty. You can have a look at the control files I'm using here: http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/modcaml/modcaml/debian/ Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Rich. -- Richard Jones. http://www.annexia.org/ http://freshmeat.net/users/rwmj Merjis Ltd. http://www.merjis.com/ - all your business data are belong to you. NET::FTPSERVER is a full-featured, secure, configurable, database-backed FTP server written in Perl: http://www.annexia.org/freeware/netftpserver/
