Package Building HOWTO

[Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Joseph Charpak wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 18:24 -0300, Jeff Moe wrote:
>> I have written up a Package Building HOWTO.
>>
>> You can find it here:
>> http://wiki.maemo.org/User:Jebba#Package_Building_HOWTO
>>
> 
> Looks good although I'd swap the order of compile for armel with compile
> for x86. First you compile for x86 and run the resulting app to see if
> it works in scratchbox.

I'd add here also testing for:
- install, remove & re-install package (maybe also upgrade)
- run lintian on the packages (outside of sbox) and fix relevant
   reported packaging issues:
     lintian *.deb
- test the software when run under Valgrind to see whether that
   reports any memory handling issues:
      fakeroot apt-get install valgrind maemo-debug scripts
      run-with-memcheck <app>
   (relevant for C & C++ code, not for interpreted stuff)


	- Eero