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Re: newbie packaging question



Eric Winger <ewinger@keyww.com> writes:

> ok, I've managed to make a .deb file & a big ol tarball. Questions:
> * I thought that the .deb file would end up containing all of my
> * files, but the only thing that could possible hold my source is the
> * big tarball that dpkg-buildpackage built for me. Does this seem
> * correct?

The *.deb files are usually only the compiled binaries (ignoring -dev,
-doc and source-bla debs).

Sources are in the (.orig).tar.gz, diff.gz (if .orig) and dsc
(organizing the former files).

MfG
        Goswin



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