* Eric Winger <ewinger@keyww.com> [030807 21:54]:
> But in following the instructions in the doc it tells me to create some
> directories with my source in them, then use dh-make first. But dh_make
> keeps telling me it can't find my source package.
dh_make is optimized to create source packages that automatically create
the binary package. While it is an also be a nice (though not the
easiest) way to create a .deb out of some upstream binaries, you have
to understand debhelper a bit more than when using it for waht it was
made.
The easiest way is to start with an empty source, i.e. create an
emtpy directory containing a version number, like
mkdir blafasel-1.0
cd blafasel-1.0
dh_make -n -s -e you@email.host
which should create a debian/-subdirectory with everything needed in it.
In debian/rules just remove the calls to make, and you can already
create an (almost) empty ".deb", by calling "fakeroot ./debian/rules".
(or dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -B, if you prefer this).
Then just add the proper commands in debian/rules to get the programs
installed to debian/tmp or debian/<name> depending on what DH_COMPAT
you have set and remove those files in debian/ you do not need, and
perhaps adopting the control and changelog (and the copyright-file
as it will contain GPL by default) would be a nice idea.
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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