[maemo-developers] I still have problems creating .deb packages :(

[From: Mohammed Hassan]

Hi,

On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 16:00 +0100, ext Andrea Grandi wrote:
> > * And please delete all .ex files that are not used.
> 
> how do I know if an .ex is used or not?

,ex are examples and they are not used unless you rename them to get rid
of the .ex extension.
You need to check the debian guide for that. They are documented :)


> this time I've another problem: .deb are not generated at all :(
> Usually I found them in the upper folder of flickrapi-0.15 but this
> time are not there.
> 
> During creation I get these errors: http://pastebin.ca/794911

You'd better off running fakeroot debian/rules clean, cp -a debian /tmp
delete everything, unpack a new tarball and cp -a /tmp/debian <to the
tarball>
dpkg-source is complaining about some binary files being deleted and
this can't be represented in the diff.gz file.
I'd actually download the tarball from the library homepage and rename
it to flickrapi_0.15.orig.tar.gz, unpack it and copy debian/ there

Cheers,

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Localization Engineer
OSSO - Nokia Multimedia