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Re: Packaging Perl programs



On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:05:36AM -0600, Carlo U. Segre wrote:
> 
> I have more or less successfully packages a program which is mostly C and
> FORTRAN by following the New Maintainers Guide.  I am running into
> problems with those programs which are Perl based.  When I run dh_make in
> the source directory, I get the error message:
> 
> Source archive you specified was not found!

What flags are you using?  That message means you are using the -f flag
and haven't told it the right file.

> Is there a simple way to generate the contents of debian/ for such
> programs or is the best thing to do to look at similar package and copy
> and modify the control files?
dh_make is the simplest way, you can of course take the files out of 
the /usr/share directory as someone else mentioned.

  - Craig
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