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Re: multiple target packages - how do they work?



On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 06:28:27PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote:
> Yes, I've looked at those, but they are not very clearly organized,
> from the point of view of someone trying to apply what is contained.
> They don't give you an idea at all about the 'feel' of it. I've looked
> at a few packages, and, lacking a common way to do this, it seems like
> everyone does it in a slightly different way.  Yuck:-)

Have a look at debhelper, in particular the -p option (described in
debhelper(1)).  Look at /usr/share/doc/debhelper/examples/rules.multi2
for a bare bones rule file.

You will also need multiple binary sections in the debian/control
file, one for each binary package.

HTH,

   Julian

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