Re: RFS: auctiongallery -- Generates picture galleries and HTML templates for auction descriptions
On 13/08/05, Stan Vasilyev <stan.vasilyev@csun.edu> wrote:
> Thanks for the comments. I already know how to use debuilder for C++
> programs that install via ./configure, make and install. But my program
> is a simple script and it doesn't have any of that. I will try to figure
> out how to package it the Debian way.
>
> 1. The command line options should be a piece of cake.
> 2. I had that idea but I couldn't figure out how to do that. The
> "source" thing looks promising.
> 3 and 4. I will look into removing Bash dependency
In your debian/rules file instead of calling 'make install' you can do iirc:
cp script1 $(DESTDIR)/usr/bin/script1
cp script2 $(DESTDIR)/usr/bin/script2
cp docs/* $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/doc
For clean IIRC it'd just be "rm -rdf(or whatever suits you best) $(DESTDIR)"
I know for a package I maintain (ipkungfu) my rules file just runs a
simple script to copy everything in place, and another to use for the
clean method.
>
> Sven Mueller wrote:
>
> >Stan Vasilyev wrote on 13/08/2005 05:13:
> >
> >
> >>I have just added the Debian package to my website. You can download it
> >>from http://home.comcast.net/~deathkrush/
> >>
> >>I packaged it manually with dpkg-deb and checked it with lintian.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Please don't do it that way. Please provide a proper debian source
> >package. It should be based on your original source tarball and provide
> >a debian/rules file with features as defined in the debian policy (and
> >the maintainers guide).
> >
> >Your package should always exist in the form of a debian source package.
> >As your software isn't specific to debian, the source package consists
> >of your "upstream" tarball, a .dsc file describing the source package
> >and a .diff.gz file which contains Debian specific additions.
> >
> >Please look at the FAQ page for this list:
> >http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html where there is
> >a question and answer which would be of particular interest for you:
> >http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html#firstpackage
> >
> >Ask here for help if needed, but try to consult the documentation first
> >at http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ and
> >http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals, especially the document at:
> >http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/
> >
> >I also took a look at your script. I have a few comments on it:
> >
> >1) The script should be able to handle some commandline options.
> > preferably at least "-c <configfile>" to override the filename
> > of the config file and "-h"/"--help" do describe its usage.
> >2) You say in the INSTALL file that your config file parser.
> > But your parser just reads "key=value" pairs from that file.
> > why don't you rename the keys in that file appropriately and
> > simply source it? Instead of "while read line; do ... done < config"
> > do "source config". If you don't want to do that, you can at least
> > remove that problem with the trailing newline in the file by using
> > "(cat config; echo) | while read line ; do ... done".
> >3) It's common practise in Debian packages to avoid depending on bash
> > if possible. So it would be nice if you could check wether your
> > script works as expected with "ash" as well. ash is far closer to
> > a standard POSIX shell than bash, and as far as I saw on first
> > glance, it should be able to run your script, which would remove
> > the dependency on bash.
> >4) Your dependency on bash is even versioned. Is there a particular
> > reason why bash 2 (as in oldstable) wouldn't be able to run your
> > script? It's especially irritating that you use a versioned
> > dependency on bash since your dependency on imagemagick is _not_
> > versioned. If you really need bash >= 3.0, it would be nice for
> > people using Sarge if you could make that "bash (>=3) | bash3".
> >
> >Not trying to put you down, just trying to help you making your package
> >better. ;-)
> >
> >cu,
> >sven
> >
> >
>
>
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