Re: Gnome Menu Item for Debian Package

[Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk>]

Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> Le Mar 5 Octobre 2004 01:17, Sam Morris a écrit :
> > Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > > > binary-post-install/freeciv-cvs-client::
> > > >    mkdir -p debian/freeciv-cvs-client/usr/share/applications
> > > >    cp debian/freeciv-cvs-client.desktop \
> > > >        debian/freeciv-cvs-client/usr/share/applications/
> > > >
> > > >    mkdir -p debian/freeciv-cvs-client/usr/share/pixmaps
> > > >    cp debian/civclient.xpm
> > > > debian/freeciv-cvs-client/usr/share/pixmaps/ uudecode
> > > > debian/civclient.png.uu -o \
> > > >        debian/freeciv-cvs-client/usr/share/pixmaps/civclient.png
> > >
> > > why don't you use a .install file that dh_install will handle
> > > smoothly ?
> >
> > Because I didn't know I could do that! Thanks for the tip :)
>
> in fact you have magic files for a big part of the dh_ scripts (at least 
> with cdbs, but IIRC it's not cdbs related)
>
> you have a per package : .install, .links, ....
> it's really handy to have a quite small debian/rules :)

In fact, once I replace those lines with entries in my .install files, 
there will be nothing left in debian/rules except variable definitions 
and the CDBS includes. CDBS is lovely, if underdocumented. :)

Regards,

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Sam Morris