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Re: Bug#706160: general: it should be easier for ordinary developers to work with Debian packages



On 27/04/13 01:46, James Cloos wrote:
>>>>>> "CALP" == Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <clopez@igalia.com> writes:
> 
> CALP> This can be even more simple:
> 
> CALP> dh_make -f ../foo-1.tar.gz
> CALP> dpkg-buildpackage
> 
> And where does one find dh_make?
> 
> Searching on goog suggests it would be part of debhelper.  But it isn't:
> 
> :; dpkg -L debhelper|grep dh_make
> /usr/bin/dh_makeshlibs
> /usr/share/man/de/man1/dh_makeshlibs.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/fr/man1/dh_makeshlibs.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man1/dh_makeshlibs.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/es/man1/dh_makeshlibs.1.gz
> 
> :; dpkg -l|grep debhelp|perl -pe 's/  +/  /g'
> ii  debhelper  9.20120909  all  helper programs for debian/rules
> 
> -JimC
> 
Use apt-file to search which package contains a given file:

$ apt-file search dh_make | grep /dh_make$
dh-make: /usr/bin/dh_make



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