Re: i have a problem with making a .deb file

[Christian SPENER <chris@spener.net>]

On Friday 06 April 2001 02:05, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:58:31PM +0200, Christian SPENER wrote:
> > i made a deb file from tar.gz file, did everything like in the new
> > maintainer guide. it is easy cause the programm is a kdevelop programm,
> > so it uses automake conf etc.
>
> Could you show us your rules file, perhaps?  Are you using debhelper?
>
> > everything workes, only the binary goes to /bin not to /usr/bin
>
> Where did you say to put it?
>
> > when i look into into the deb file, under CONTENTS there are this dirs
> > bin
> > usr
> > share
>
> What is "CONTENTS"?  How do you look into the deb file?
>
>    Julian

thx, the problem was in the rules file, i had to edit it. thx Gordon Sadler 
for the help.

now the debs work,ok but with 
lintian -i programm.changes i get this error
....
E: ktouch: binary-without-manpage ktouch
....

ok, so i made a manpage, like in the new maintainer guide, but 
dpkg-buildpackage doesn't find the man page, do I have to tell some config 
file that there is this man page, or do i only have to make this manpage 
programm.1 ?? leave it in the debian dir?

thx 
chris
ps.:
there is another error
E: ktouch: symlink-should-be-relative usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ktouch/common 
/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/common
but this one is from the program i think, so i need to edit some stuff in the 
programms source, or?

pps: and some other stuff. it is a normal kde program made with kdevelop. 
when i install it normal with the tar.gz file ( ./configure && make && make 
install ) I have to do an
export KDEDIRS=/usr/local/kde
else the program wont work.
when I install the program with the deb file everything works, no need for an 
export. on every other distribution it works without a problem.

ppps: I'am using sid can I make on this machine debs for potato (I think this 
is not possible)