Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

[Terry Burton <tez@terryburton.co.uk>]

Hi,

I'm currently packaging the Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript project
that I have written. This is my first attempt at creating a source
package which I have created by following the Debian New Maintainers
Guide.

Would people please examine the package and tell me what problems
exist. You can view the files at
http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/files/debiansrc

Some additional questions:

The project has no dependancies. Is it safe to remove this line from
the control file?
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}

The upstream project unpacks all files into a single directory and
does not provide a facility for installing the files into a distro's
file system hierarchy. For the Debian package I have created a
Makefile that accomplishes his via the install target. There is no
compilation necessary so I have created empty all and clean targets.
Could somebody verify that this is the correct way to handle such a
package.

Debian Policy mandates that programs have a manpage. Since this is a
PostScript resource (similar to a shared library) does this rule still
apply. If so then I'm not sure what the content of such a manpage
ought to be.

The project is platform independant as specified in the control file.
When I run dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot from within the project source
directory it creates a package for i386. Is this normal behaviour? How
to I create an all architectures binary package?

After I have got the source package into good shape, do you have any
advise on finding a package sponser? Any volunteers.

Thanks for the assistance.


Thanks,

Tez