On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 16:00 +0200, Dominik George wrote: > Hello mentors, > > I am just packaging my Pidgin Last.fm Plugin for Debian and am > wondering how to get a .changes file. The problem is that the plugin > consists of a single perl script which is copied to /usr/lib/pidgin. You need debian/rules and then build the package with dpkg-buildpackage. dpkg -b is NOT suitable for making packages for upload. > What I already did is: > * Create a fodler structure with the file system tree I want to > merge No. You specify that directory hierarchy in the rules for the package build. > * Added a DEBIAN folder No, dpkg-buildpackage generates that folder when building the package. You need to create a debian/ folder using dh_make. > * Created a control file Keep that and copy it over the boilerplate debian/control file created by dh_make. > * Added changelog, copyright notice and such to the > usr/share/doc part of the tree No. Those go into debian/ for dpkg-buildpackage to put into the correct locations. > * Ran dpkg -b in order to get a .deb package out of that As above, wrong way to do things. > * Checked that everything is lintian-clean You haven't checked the source package, only the .deb. > But all I am left with is a .deb file - so nothing I could upload to > mentors.debian.net or such. All guides I could find explain how to > either build a source package or how to use dh_make - which needs a > Makefile that compiles the sources. As I already mentioned, I don't > have either of that. debian/rules IS a makefile. dh-make does not need anything else in the package, but you must create the package such that dpkg-buildpackage will work. > So what is the correct way to build the package? $ dh-make $ cd debian/ edit/copy in control, copyright, changelog and edit rules remove unwanted files $ cd ../ $ dpkg-buildpackage -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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