Re: statist - terminal based statistics program
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:41:35AM -0200, Jakson A. Aquino wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I would like to add a small statistics software to Debian
> official packages. Statist home page currently is on:
>
> http://www.usf.uos.de/~breiter/tools/statist/index.en.html
>
> Soon we will have a new release of statist (1.3.1), and I've
> edited a script that creates a binary .deb file. (I got the
> original script from Kurumin, a Kannopix/Debian based
> distro). I checked the package with lintian and fixed all
> warnings and errors reported. Linda reports two errors but
> don't is as informative as lintian on how to fix them.
>
> In fact, the package has the changelog and the copyright
> files, but they might be in the wrong directory.
>
> I don't know very well how to use the Debian tools to build
> a package. I'm using only dpkg-deb, and I need help to
> replace the script with the adequate procedures.
I see. You'll want to read the New Maint Guide at
http://www.debian.org/devel/
> Currently, it's possible to create the package following the
> steps below:
>
> 1) Download the tarball from the cvs tree:
> http://intevation.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs-statist.cgi/statist/statist.tar.gz?tarball=1
All good so far;
> 2) Edit the file Makefile.inc, changing the path from
> "/usr/local" to "/usr"
This might be something you do also in the Debian package; perhaps you
will instead set an environment variable such as PREFIX=/usr/.
> 3) Compile the binary(cd src; make).
This is some of the stuff that goes in ./debian/rules (the build
rules).
> 4) Compile the pdf files (cd ../doc; make).
This will be called something like "build-indep" in ./debian/rules (if
you choose to split up the building of arch and arch-indep packages,
if its even warrented to split the package into arch: all and arch:
any ones. Read and understand this).
> 5) Run the script "create_deb_rpm.sh".
This is probably largely unnecessary, but some parts might also go
into ./debian/rules.
> Can anyone help me? I think I need a sponsor...
Change the package to use conventional build tools; at the very least,
dh_builddeb and not dpkg-deb directly (dh_ is just a wrapper for it,
though).
I'm not yet a DD so I can't sponsor you; but I can help, probably
on-list, if you have questions. Someone else might jump in to
sponsor, too, once the package is more sane :)
--
Clear skies,
Justin
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