Re: Seeking source rebuilding docs
Neale Banks <neale@lowendale.com.au> writes:
> I'll add my vote to any proposal to create documentation of correct
> usage of debian/rules, dpkg-buildpackage etc for those of us who
> have the occasional need/desire to rebuild from the source packages.
The standards Debian packages have to comply to are listed in the
Debian policy. You want to read section 5.2. People can do pretty
much arbitrary stuff from the Makefile rules.
dpkg-buildpackage (in terms of building the .deb) is just basically a
wrapper script to invoke the debian/rules Makefile.
On a somewhat related topic, I do think though that it would be nice
to have documentation that describes how all of the various
development and packaging tools work together, and where the various
layers come in...
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