Re: Debian Packaging Guide/Tutorial
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 04:02:56PM -0500, Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 14:39 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> <snip>
> > A sufficiently generalized piece of documentation would be great,
> > though. Suggestions for content: conffile handling (dpkg.org),
> > maintscripts (debian women? I don't fully grok these yet!), and
> > upgrade handling with eg. split packages and Replaces.
>
> I've looked through most of these resources. However some of the
> packaging structure still seems to be missing. I know I mentioned this
> before but apparently if you have a config file in your debian directory
> this script is called prior to the preinst script and is supposed to be
> used for your debconf questions. What is interesting is that I haven't
> seen this any of this documented anywhere, I only happened upon it
> because a debian developer pointed it out.
>
> Is there any kind of documentation that would point out features like
> this out there. I'm not even terribly concerned with it all being in one
> location, I can do the collection of it myself. I just find that it
> makes it really hard to start building packages in an efficient manner
> when after several months of hacking away someone comes by and says "You
> know you should really be doing it this way" having no clue that that
> way even exsited.
>
> Sorry for the rant, it's just a little frustrating.
Probably you think "man debconf-devel" is useful.
Cheers,
Michael
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