Re: library files are not included in the .deb files

[Mattia Dongili <malattia@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 02:13:58PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> I am trying to package a library whose upstream is located at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/fortranposix
> 
> 
> I already read the libpkg-guide, maint-guide. This problem was not 
> discussed in any of them. I googled and also asked in the irc about this 
> problem.
> 
> There were no errors/warnings when I checked the final packages with 
> linda -i and lintian -i. But when I did dpkg -c, there are no libraries 
> in the packages.

maybe it's just something wrong within your
debian/<package>.{install,dirs,whatever} files (if you're using
debhelper scripts

[...]
> $dpkg -c libfortranposix0-dev_0.1-1_i386.deb
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2005-07-09 13:46:00 ./
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2005-07-09 13:46:00 ./usr/
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2005-07-09 13:45:59 ./usr/bin/
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2005-07-09 13:45:59 ./usr/sbin/

/usr/sbin and /usr/sbin are useless, don't create them. They look like
the default entries for the dirs file created by dh_make :)

[...]
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rajulocal/practice/fortranposix-0.1'
> dh_testdir
> dh_testroot
> dh_installchangelogs CHANGES
> dh_installdocs
> dh_installexamples
> dh_installman
> dh_link
> dh_strip
> dh_compress
> dh_fixperms
> dh_installdeb
> dh_shlibdeps
> dh_gencontrol
> dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${shlibs:Depends}
> dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${misc:Depends}
> dh_md5sums
> dh_builddeb
> dpkg-deb: building package `libfortranposix0-dev' in `../libfortranposix0-dev_0.1-1_i386.deb'.
> dpkg-deb: building package `libfortranposix0' in `../libfortranposix0_0.1-1_i386.deb'.
>  signfile fortranposix_0.1-1.dsc

can't see dh_install in the above list, might be the problem?
Could you eventually put your debian/* scrips somewhere to give them a
look?
-- 
mattia
:wq!