On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 20:02 -0500, David Rios wrote: > On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 00:31 +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > Am Montag, den 18.10.2010, 17:26 -0500 schrieb David Rios: > > > Hi. > > > > > > I want to package a XUL-based application which isn't in Debian > > > Repository yet. I've read many tutorials, including "Debian New > > > Maintainters' Guide" but I can't find how to package this kind of apps. > > > You don't have to compile it (it's an script-based app) so it doesn't > > > have a "Makefile" file. I use "dpkg-buildpackage" and it creates a .deb > > > file but it doesn't include my app. Can you help me? where can I find > > > instructions? > > > > You probably want to use mozilla-devscripts to package it. Look at the > > wiki page [1] and look how other XUL extensions (e.g. adblock-plus) are > > packaged. > > > > [1] http://wiki.debian.org/mozilla-devscripts > > > > Thanks Benjamin, but this is a standalone app, not an XPI app, and it > runs using "xulrunner" so I think mozilla-devscripts aren't useful in > this case. Tell me if I'm wrong. > I had to create a Makefile to copy files to its right location; now dpkg-buildpackage process it and create a right DEB package. Thank you. -- David Rios <debian@davidrios.me>
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