[maemo-developers] Problem making .deb package

[From: Andrea Grandi]

Hi,

could both of you, please post your debian/rules and debian/control
files somewhere? For example in http://pastebin.ca

Since I had the same problem with another package, I'd like to see the
differences and understand why one package works and not the other.

Thanks :)

2007/12/6, Daniel Martín Yerga <dyerga at gmail.com>:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 14:39:18 +0100
> "Aniello Del Sorbo" <anidel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am porting an application to Maemo 4.0 (Xournal)
> > I have successfully modified it to compile and run in my scratchbox
> > (CHINOOK_X86 target)
> > (I haven't been kind and "make install"ed what was needed instead of
> > packaging stuff the proper way.
> >
> > Anyway I wanted to do it clean for the ARMEL target. So I started
> > packaging the dependencies first.
> > For example gail-1.20.1.
> >
> > I've created the gail-1.20.1 with the clean sources in it and (from
> > the dir) I've ran:
> >
> > dh_make -e anidel at gmail.com -f ../packages/gail-1.20.1.tar.gz
> >
> > and told it that gail is a library.
> > dh_make complained about a BROKEN package name "gailBROKEN" thus I
> > went to debian/control
> >
> > and  used the package name "gail". I didn't change anythng else a
> > part from the descriptions
> > I've removed useless files from the debian dir as stated in the
> > Creating Debian Package HOWTO.
> > Finally I've ran the command:
> >
> > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
> >
> > to build the deb files.
> >
> > Here comes the issue. It created the debian/tmp dir with the binaries
> > in it (everything compiled just fine),
> > but it did not packaged them into the .deb file, just the
> > debian/{control, changelog, copyright... } files...
> > (as shown by : dpkg -c ../gail_1.20.1-1_armel.deb)
> >
> > What I am doing wrong ?
> > I've been struggling with the issue since this morning...
> >
> > PS: at the end it also complained about unkown substitution variables:
> >
> > dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable
> > ${shlibs:Depends} dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution
> > variable ${misc:Depends}
>
> I compiled gail yesterday and uploaded it to extras-devel repository. I
> needed it to compile libgtkhtml2 and python-gtkhtml2. Which are also in
> the extras-devel repository.
>
> http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/pool/chinook/free/g/gail/
>
> If you have some problem with it, comment me.
>
>
> Regards.
> - --
> Daniel Martín Yerga
> dyerga at gmail.com
> http://yerga.net
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
>
> iD8DBQFHV/6IcnvB1T3xmfMRAqrOAJ9aAu9G7Jk27FeimUQY2aCxXh1RZQCfS7Ed
> G0Z4/XCg6iwzrTXVIisGXMQ=
> =IjPy
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> _______________________________________________
> maemo-developers mailing list
> maemo-developers at maemo.org
> https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
>


-- 
Andrea Grandi
email: a.grandi at gmail.com
website: http://www.ptlug.org