Re: debian/rules

[Daniel Moerner <dmoerner@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes@seznam.cz> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just going through "New Maintainers' Guide" and editing debian/rules file.
>
> In NMG is sentence:
> "If your package is an `Architecture: all' one, you need to include all the commands for building the package under the `binary-indep' rule, and leave the `binary-arch' rule empty instead."
>
> It's mean something like this?
>
> ############
>
> # Build architecture-independent files here.
> binary-indep: build install
> dh_testdir
>        dh_testroot
>        dh_installchangelogs
>        dh_installdocs
>        dh_installexamples
> #       dh_install
> #       dh_installmenu
> #       dh_installdebconf
> #       dh_installlogrotate
> #       dh_installemacsen
> #       dh_installpam
> #       dh_installmime
> #       dh_python
> #       dh_installinit
> #       dh_installcron
> #       dh_installinfo
>        dh_installman
>        dh_link
>        dh_strip
>        dh_compress
>        dh_fixperms
> #       dh_perl
> #       dh_makeshlibs
>        dh_installdeb
>        dh_shlibdeps
>        dh_gencontrol
>        dh_md5sums
>        dh_builddeb
>
>
> # Build architecture-dependent files here.
> binary-arch: build install
>
> binary: binary-indep binary-arch
> .PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary install configure
>
> #################
>

That is the correct approach, as far as I know. Be aware that you
should remove the commented "dh_*" commands prior to attempting to
upload the package or getting a sponsor, see the minor issues section
of http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html

-- 
Daniel Moerner <dmoerner@gmail.com>