Re: what are the latest debian packaging tools.
Le Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 09:28:09AM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer écrivait:
Hi Stéphane,
> IMHO, that's one of the problems that beginners packagers have: there are
> several docs, which say different things (because they have been written at
> different time and not upgraded) and they often let you alone very soon (for
> instance, they talk about initial packaging and not about upgrading, whether
> it is because of a new upstream release or because of changes in your
> packaging).
Right, and I would be interested by some advice about upgrading a
package because of an upstream source release.
> As an absolute beginner myself, I use:
>
> deb-make for initial packaging (in package debmake)
I began using this package but in fact it is outdated, you really should
use debhelper. The transition is not very hard, you can use dh_make instead
of debmake and then dh_debstd in order to see chat commands you need to add
in your rules files.
> build for.... building (in package devscripts)
> dch for managing changelog (in package devscripts)
This is ok, I think.
> I will have to choose something to upload once I'll have my official
> registration :-)
Me too. :-) But in fact, it seems that Martin Schulze (the only responsible
I know for registering new developers) is very busy. I've sent my request
one month ago... I wonder if I will not send it twice...
Cheers,
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Hertzog Raphaël ¤ 0C4CABF1 ¤ http://www.mygale.org/~hra/
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