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Re: splitting package



On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 09:48:21AM -0500, Randolph Chung wrote:
> Another packaging question :)
> 
> an upstream package contains both server and client programs. I'd like to
> split them up into a server package and a client package. how do you do this
> given one upstream source file? The client package is really just one file.
> The reason to split it off is that the server package has many dependencies
> that clients do not need/want.

I think there may be some examples in /usr/doc/debhelper.

You need to add a second binary package entry to debian/control,
and have the debian/rules binary target make two subdirectories
of debian/, one for each package, etc. debhelper makes it easy.


Hamish
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