Dear fellow Debian users. I've recently been looking to making my own custom Debian packages from source, as some of the software found in Etch is a bit outdated for some of my needs. Since I've found no back ported packages that suits my needs, I thought about making my own custom packages.
I've been able to so far to make both binary packages and library packages, using dh_make and debuild. I've started to understand the process of editing the debian/rules and debian/control files, but I'm at a loss when it comes to the more technical aspects of packaging custom packages. What I mean by this, is I've still not yet understood how I actually add for instance custom configuration files, documentation and most importantly when building custom library packages, how do I go about separating the actual library files and development files. I've tried to the best of my abilities to found a decent howto, but have so far not yielded and good results. What is important when packaging library files, what do I need to make sure of both when installing, and also uninstalling. Any pointers would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance, have a continued good day and weekend! :) -- Yours sincerely Jostein Elvaker Haande "A free society is a place where it is safe to be unpopular" - Adlai Stevenson Web: http://tolecnal.net - Mail: tolecnal <a> tolecnal <dot> net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
