[maemo-developers] need help uploading to Extras

[From: Andrew Zabolotny]

From Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:10:35 -0400
Owen Williams <owen-maemo at ywwg.com> wrote:

> In my case, I am able to create a package that installs on the
> device just fine
Have you used some tool to build the debian/ directory? If you're
building the .deb file manually, that won't work for the builder, as it
needs automatic instructions for building your package.

> The first is a hildonized version of the Sonata MPD client
> (http://sonata.berlios.de/).  I've uploaded my patched tarball and
> built deb here: http://ywwg.com/maemo/  Version 1.5.2 is the latest
> version.
I can help you with packaging, as I'm interested too in Sonata. Do you
have a project on garage for this?

Also you may try to get/adapt the packaging scripts from the Ubuntu or
Debian version of Sonata. Just run "apt-get source sonata" in some
directory from Ubuntu/Debian.

> I hacked up this package manually since I don't know how to set up C
> packages to build themselves.
That's easy, really. You just have to read a little docs (for example,
here: http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/

> ps,
> and if anyone knows why my icons always come out so small in the
> application menus, please let me know.
I believe that's because you don't provide larger icons (app menu
uses 64x64 icons as far as I understand), or don't run
gtk-update-icon-cache. You should put them in 
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/ and run

gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor

from your postinst hooks of the .deb package.

-- 
Andrew
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