On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:22:28PM +0200, Mauro Darida wrote: > I have written an advanced debian tutorial and decided to try to build a > debian package from it. I used the pdf format as source and, after reading > the maintainer stuff, tried to build the package thinking it would be easy > since there are no dependencies. You're using PDF as *source*? How come? [...] > I cannot proceed form here. I think that probably the problem is that I > do not have a source code but just a pdf document. All the documentation > I read was always talking about "source" file and thought it was ok for > a pdf file also, but I suspect I am wrong. > So, what is the procedure for building a package for a pdf doc? Did I miss > something in the maintainer documentation? Or maybe I am just too bold and > ignorant and have to give up? Why don't you simply check some packages that contain binary files? `apt-get source asc-music` I chose asc-music package cause that's one of my package so I'm sure it will be similar to yours. Just take a look at rules file and the most important for you will be dh_install call along with debian/install file. regards fEnIo -- ,''`. Bartosz Fenski | mailto:fenio@debian.org | pgp:0x13fefc40 | irc:fEnIo : :' : 32-050 Skawina - Glowackiego 3/15 - w. malopolskie - Poland `. `' phone:+48602383548 | proud Debian maintainer and user `- http://skawina.eu.org | jid:fenio@jabber.org | rlu:172001
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