[maemo-developers] Importing packages from the Debian archive

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On 10/18/07, Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes at laas.fr> wrote:
>
> I'd like to build a package for Maemo that is already available in the
> Debian archive, but not in Maemo.  I started by fetching the package
> source on Debian, then running `dpkg-buildpackage' from within
> Scratchbox.  The issue is that I then need to perform the same
> operations for each dependency of the package, recursively, which is a
> bit tedious.
>
> Is there a way to automate building of packages imported from the Debian
> archive in Scratchbox?

This is exactly the problem which my little project, mud-builder
attempts to address:

    http://mud-builder.garage.maemo.org/

It should help you repackage upstream tarballs and debs into
Maemo-compatible ones. I've got *some* code which also does basic
auto-Hildonisation of Gtk/Glade GUIs, but it's nowhere near robust
enough yet (and doesn't solve the other issues in terms of screen size
etc.)

It's been a bit quiet recently, but it's been gathering users slowly
and we've had a number of offers to improve the documentation.

If you've got any questions, please don't hesitate to ask me or on the
mailing list.

Cheers,

Andrew

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