On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 11:18:19PM +0000, Ben Crowell wrote: > The software is available here: > http://www.lightandmatter.com/when/when.html > The tarball is capable of building the debian package if you > do a 'make debian', but it requires my own GPG key's password. > If the idea is to have the sponsor GPG-sign the package, then > the sponsor should edit the lines in the Makefile that define > the vaiables MAINTAINER_EMAIL and MAINTAINER_NAME. You should change that to build using standard Debian procedures and tools if you want to get the package into Debian. Specifically, you'll need to provide your sponsor with a standard Debian source package (containing orig.tar.gz, diff.gz, and dsc files). It looks like all you might have to do is rename debian_stuff to debian and add things like a changelog to the debian directory. In general, it's best to produce your software independent of Debian, and then add the Debian-specific parts to create a Debian package. The benefit of this is that if people want to make packages for another distribution, they're not left with a Debian taste in their mouths. <grin> Remember, some sick person may want to run your code on a Windows box one day... - Matt
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