Re: RFS: tvim

[Harry Rickards <hrickards@l33tmyst.com>]

On 26 Jun 2009, at 20:29, Mauro Lizaur <lavaramano@debian- 
community.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Harry Rickards wrote:
>
> > Dear mentors,
> >
> > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "tvim".
> >
> > * Package name    : tvim
> >  Version         : 0.2-1
> >  Upstream Author : Francis Smit <grizzly@smit.id.au>
> > * URL             : http://sourceforge.net/projects/tvim/
> > * License         : GPLv3
> >  Section         : misc
> >
> > It is these binary packages:
> > tvim     - a gui wrapper around gvim's remote interface
> >
> > The package appears to be lintian clean.
> >
> > The upload would fix this bug: 534607
> >
> > The package can be found on the tvim download page on  Sourceforge.net 
> > :
> > - URL: http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/tvim/tvim_0.2-1_i386.deb
>
> Hi there,
> Please notice that you should provide a source package and not a
> binary package (as you did).
> This can be done by executing dpkg-buildpackage (as I imagine you did)
> but with the '-S' option.
>
> Also, there's a FAQ that probably will answer most of your questions  
> that
> can be found here:
> http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html
>
> Regards,
> Mauro

Ok, thanks for the advice. I'll have a read through the FAQ and make a  
source package. I actually used dpkg-deb not dpkg-buildpackage, as  
when I try to use dh_make (as per the New Maintainers Guide), I get an  
error about no Makefiles being found in the top directory, even though  
I know they're there. I also can't seem to convert the Makefile into  
the rule file manually.
Just out of interest, should the Makefiles be generated with ./ 
configure then put in the package, or should debian/rules generate  
them with ./configure? When I try to get rules to do that (adding './ 
configure --prefix=/usr' to the configure section of debian/tules), I  
get an error like: 'Make: ./configure not found'.

Thanks
Harry Rickards