Re: making a debian package of a php development project

[Colin Walters <walters@cis.ohio-state.edu>]

Peter Kruppa <pkruppa@life.be> writes:

> I'd like to make a debian package of our php-based application, so
> it can be easily installed on a debian system.  But I have a
> problem, it seems that you have to have at least 1 main binary in
> the package (is that true?)

I don't think so.  There are a lot of packages which only install
documentation, for example.

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> Has somebody got a fine link how to make a debian package out of
> some code which doesn't need any compiling and which doesn't produce
> any binary...?  I read the maint-guide, but didn't get mush wiser...

Check out Manoj Srivastava's page:

http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/rules/

> I hope this is the right mailinglist to post this message, if not,
> please inform me about which is the right one.

I believe this is the right list.