On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Jonathan Marsden <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/08/2013 05:01 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote: > >> I have discovered a very nice gui program, that lets you create deb >> packages. It is named Debreate, and it is *very good*. >> >> http://debreate.sourceforge.net >> >> >> So I created my first .deb package, but I can't upload it to a >> launchpad ppa I have, because it needs "the source files", etc. >> >> Is there a possibility to upload my deb package to my repository? > > No, not using debreate. The video by its author says debreate is "just > for building basic packages for your own use" (or words to that effect). > Debreate seems to create packages from binaries (ugh) not from sources. > Its author indicates that he is not an experienced packager himself.
Yes, it creates deb packages with the files we want to be installed (binaries, documets, etc) and I think it is a very good program. I suggest you give it a look, the program is really good, and I think Canonical should provide such a tool. > PPAs are not intended for individual vanity use, they are for working > towards packages that could one day end up in Ubuntu. > > I would *strongly* recommend that you do not use this debreate tool. Yes, I want to create debs easily, and with the precision that this tool offers, so as to upload them to a PPA of my own, for people to use. > Instead, learn to create packages the more official way. There are two > basic ways to do that, the traditional way and the "UDD" (Ubuntu > Distributed Development) way, which is newer and nice when it works, but > sometimes you need to use the traditional way. > > See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuideDeprecated/Complete for the > traditional approach, and > http://developer.ubuntu.com/resources/tools/packaging/ for the newer UDD > way of doing things. I am sorry, but I think this is a tonne of abstruse information, that very few people manage to create even a simple deb package with it. People need a simple GUI tool, to create deb packages. Debreate is very good on that. -- Ioannis Vranos http://www.cppsoftware.net -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
