Re: Packaging without Makefile

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com> writes:

> Dominik George wrote:
>
>> Hello mentors,
>> 
>> I am just packaging my Pidgin Last.fm Plugin for Debian and am wondering how
>> to get a .changes file. The problem is that the plugin consists of a single
>> perl script which is copied to /usr/lib/pidgin.
>
> You may want to consider adding the script to an existing package, such as
> pidgin-plugin-pack instead of building a package for only a perl script.

But for the sake of learning something you might want to try out

dh_make - Debianize a regular source archive

and read the packaging manual and new maintainer guide.

MfG
        Goswin