also sprach Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> [2004.12.30.0807 +0100]: > > We would like to know which files are absolutely necessary for creating > > .deb package (assuming u have all the source files needed). > > Depends on how you want to create the .deb. Bare minimum is ar, tar, gzip, > and cp, more or less. Unfortunately, ar(1) won't suffice as it cannot create BSD-style archives. DEB files are BSD ar archives, not GNU ar. Thus, you need dpkg-source. However, you can drop cp(1) since tar(1) (or gzip(1)) can do that too :) > > We know about control file,changelog,rules,conffile, n scripts like > > postrm,prerm,preinst,postinst. > > None of those files (as provided in your average Debian source package) are > absolutely required to create a .deb format package, although you'll have a > hard time getting it into Debian without several of them. You need a control file. Whether that is debian/control (standard source package), or DEBIAN/control (binary package) does not matter though. However, if you use debian/control, you also need debian/changelog. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, user, and author `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
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