Gerry Reno wrote: > Andrew, Ok, .deb is building fine using modified stdeb 0.3 on hardy. > I've installed the .deb and it works. > > I can see that stdeb is using debhelper which I really don't know much > about. So it looks like debhelper or dh_make is generating the > control files. What I need is someway that in myapp maybe under a > debian/ directory, I can create postinst and prerm files and then > stdeb would look for those in the orig tarball and use them if found. > Is this possible? The debian packaging machinery invoked by dpkg-buildpackage will pick up any scripts named my-package-name.preinst, my-package-name.postinst, my-package-name.prerm, my-package-name.postrm that happen to be in the debian/ directory. See http://sdn.vlsm.org/share/Debian-Doc/manuals/maint-guide/ch-dother.en.html for more info. So you have to modify stdeb to drop the appropriate files in there if they're given as a config argument to stdeb. The stdeb master branch already creates such a file for housekeeping reasons (see commit http://github.com/astraw/stdeb/commit/9faaf049a1a7fbd8f5e1fb658248013f208f398c where I added this).
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