Moin On 1/7/2021 5:09 PM, Stephan Lachnit wrote: >> I sadly have no clue how to use the files you put on salsa to build my >> own package. I am merely a Debian user, not a developer or maintainer, >> but I will look into it how to create a .deb package from those files >> (probably dpkg-buildpackage?). If I succeed, I can give you more feedback. > I'll give a (very quick) guide on how to build it. > > First you need the basic build utilities for building a .deb: build-essential > debhelper devscripts > Then clone https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/geant4 (tip: do this in an > empty folder already for the output) > > To build the .deb, you simply run `debuild` (better in this case: `debuild > --no-lintian --no-sign`). > The final .deb is in the parent folder of the sources. > > Building might fail if you have build dependencies missing, they are listed > in debian/control. > Note that dh-sequence-python3 is provided by dh-python.
This procedure failed: ~/git/science/geant4 (debian/latest)$ debuild --no-lintian --no-sign This package has a Debian revision number but there does not seem to be an appropriate original tar file or .orig directory in the parent directory; (expected one of geant4_10.7.0.orig.tar.gz, geant4_10.7.0.orig.tar.bz2, geant4_10.7.0.orig.tar.lzma, geant4_10.7.0.orig.tar.xz or geant4.orig) continue anyway? (y/n) y dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -ui dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package geant4 dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 10.7.0-1 dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution UNRELEASED dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Stephan Lachnit <[email protected]> dpkg-source --before-build . dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64 debian/rules clean dh clean --buildsystem=cmake+ninja dh_auto_clean -O--buildsystem=cmake\+ninja dh_autoreconf_clean -O--buildsystem=cmake\+ninja dh_clean -O--buildsystem=cmake\+ninja dpkg-source -b . dpkg-source: error: can't build with source format '3.0 (quilt)': no upstream tarball found at ../geant4_10.7.0.orig.tar.{bz2,gz,lzma,xz} dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b . subprocess returned exit status 25 debuild: fatal error at line 1182: dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -ui failed I tried adding --no-tgz-check, but that didn't help, either. kind regards, Christoph -- Jan Christoph Terasa Raum 406, Leibnizstraße 11, 24098 Kiel, GERMANY Extraterrestrische Physik Telefon: +49 431 880 2487 Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik www.ieap.uni-kiel.de Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel [email protected]
