Re: Help needed making a collection of fonts into a .deb
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 12:30:53AM -0700, Matt Chisholm wrote:
> Hello everyone. I'd like to make a Debian package out of about thirty fonts of mine. I read the "Debian New Maintainers' Guide" at http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/, but I am still pretty unclear about how to proceed as that document is tailored for making Debian packages out of programs. Since there will be no compiling for my fonts, it seems that I won't be running dh_make, or editing any makefiles. However, these seem to be fairly critical steps.
just run dh_make on your tarball, select s (single binary) or l (library) as the kind of package. This will generate a debian subdir for you, which you then can adapt to your needs. of particular interrest to you will be the rules file, which, altough there is some documentation around, is not really that documented.
You will also find helpfull to look at the manpage of all those debhelper commands.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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