[maemo-developers] Packaging questions

From: Jeremiah Foster jeremiah at jeremiahfoster.com
Date: Tue Feb 9 20:46:31 EET 2010
On Feb 9, 2010, at 16:23, Marius Gedminas wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:19:10AM -0500, Ajai Khattri wrote:
>> Im trying to create my first Maemo package and I had a few questions:
>> 
>> 1) This package has a main binary, but also has additional 
>> binaries/scripts and library files, so do I select 'Multiple binaries' 
>> when running dh_make ?
> 
> There's some confusion here that I haven't seen addressed in this
> thread: "binary" can mean a "binary execution file", which is what
> you're thinking about, or it can mean a "binary Debian package", which
> is what dh_make is asking about.
> 
> You most likely want a single binary deb that contains all your
> executables.

Exactly. Thanks for pointing this out Marius. Unless I am mistaken Ajai, you were referring to building multiple *package* binaries, correct? (Not multiple application/runtime binaries.)

Jeremiah
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