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Re: Howdy! Just a note to say I'm here



On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 09:33:39AM -0500, Tony Maro wrote:
> Matthew Palmer wrote:
> 
> >On 14 Apr 2003, Tony Maro wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>I'm in the process of converting 2 of my 3 desktops from Mandrake to
> >>Debian.  I'm looking forward to learning how to build a Debian package
> >>of the software I'm developing.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >You're in the right place, then.  Have you checked out the wide array of
> >docs available at http://www.debian.org/devel/ and (especially) the New
> >Maintainer's Guide at http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/?  They'll give
> >most of the basics.  Other questions not answered there or by a judicious
> >browse through the d-mentors and d-devel list archives should be
> >well-answered by the folks here.
> >
> >
> I have, but they seem to only discuss how to make packages from 
> sources.  Unfortunately my software is written in such a manner that you 
> cannot really build it using a makefile because of the development 
> environment I use (Lazarus, a GPL replacement for Delphi).
> 
> Is there a HOWTO that describes how to make a binary-only package 
> without worrying about sources?  Perhaps I just missed it.

Look for perl or python packages like 'sitemap'
 
> 
> Thanks,
> Tony
> 

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Geert Stappers



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