[maemo-developers] need help uploading to Extras

[From: Owen Williams]

On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 13:50 +0400, Andrew Zabolotny wrote:
> From Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:10:35 -0400
> Owen Williams <owen-maemo at ywwg.com> wrote:
> 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.

I am building the deb manually.  I don't know how to make a debian/
directory.  Again, the instructions are always C-specific.  The idea
below of looking at apt-get source sonata is a great idea to help with
this.

> 
> > 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?

No, I just have a diff file against current Sonata SVN.  (The Sonata
maintainer has said that the diff is too large to merge into trunk).
I'll set up a garage page, but I'll need some help setting up a repo
that can pull in changes from Sonata's primary SVN from time to time.

> 
> 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.

that's a good idea


> That's easy, really. You just have to read a little docs (for example,
> here: http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/

I think I'll focus on getting sonata to work, then start wrestling with
this problem.


> 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.


I thought "scalable" would be enough :).  

thanks for all the info, I'll see if I can beat on this a little more.

owen