Re: Unidentified subject!
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Sanjeev Gupta wrote:
> I am starting off on packaging some .debs for programs I have installed in
> my /usr/local . I am hitting a stopper due to conflicting documentation
> on debmake, debhelper, etc, and confusion on which is better. Mr Will
> Lowe's documentation at Developer's Corner at debian seems out-of-date.
The docs are very poor to say the least. I think that coding is important
but docs are as well. Nobody can use a undocumented piece of code
unless they read the source and usually by the time you understand the
code you could've written an equivalent piece of software yourself. :<
Try:
http://www.debian.org/~elphick/manuals.html/maint-guide/ch-start.html
It's pretty good but there needs to be an advanced section.
I think debhelper is being maintained and debmake isn't or something
like that.
> The package I am currently looking at is cheops, single binary, with files
> in lib and share. Once started, I can package for the two architectures I
> have, i386 and sparc.
>
> Also, a pointer to PGP (insofar as required to sign packages) would be
> appreciated.
There was a faq posted by krooger@debian.org awhile ago, I lost the
url. Try the Debian Weekly news(it was in there):
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/
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