Re: dh_make and parsing directory name
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 06:21:25PM +0200, Marcel Meckel wrote:
> The package name should be "libwxgtk2.4" and version "2.4.1-thermoman".
> So i called dh_make -l in that directory and after modifying all necessary
> files under debian directory i did a
>
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
Packaging shared libraries correctly is not trivial, and you should not
expect a tool like dh_make to do everything for you. Its output is useful
as a starting point; it is not intended to replace a human creating the
package. You will _always_ need to edit the debian/ directory produced by
dh_make in order to produce a sane package.
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- mdz
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