Re: Building a package for a web application

[Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org>]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, liran tal wrote:

> While attempting to run dpkg-buildpackage to create a .deb package of the
> current directory
> where I'm at I'm receiving the error message:
>
> dpkg-genchanges: failure: cannot read files list file: No such file or
> directory
>
> my debian/ directory reads the following files:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 liran liran  126 2007-09-16 10:52 changelog
> -rw-r--r-- 1 liran liran  526 2007-09-17 01:57 control
> -rw-r--r-- 1 liran liran  461 2007-08-22 02:39 copyright
> -rw-r--r-- 1 liran liran   17 2007-09-16 10:58 dirs
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 liran liran 1432 2007-09-16 09:49 postinst
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 liran liran  535 2007-09-16 03:41 postrm
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 liran liran  438 2007-09-16 05:11 preinst
> -rw-r--r-- 1 liran liran 2410 2007-09-16 09:50 README
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 liran liran   23 2007-09-16 20:56 rules
> -rw-r--r-- 1 liran liran  336 2007-09-16 09:52 watch
>
>
> where as the rules file is actually empty (filled with #)

An empty rules file won't get you where you want to go.

Take a look at the debian/rules file for some existing web application; 
there are many in Debian these days.  See if you can find one very similar 
to the one you want to package.

If you're more generally confused, you should check out the New 
Maintainers Guide <http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/>.

-- Asheesh.

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