Re: Install /usr/bin/something from upstream source to /usr/bin/something on hdd?

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 06:56:33PM +0000, Patrick Schleizer wrote:
> >> I am upstream as well as would like to become a debian maintainer some
> >> day. Still learning packaging.

So what you need is a simple solution.
 
> >> Due to the luxury of being upstream as well, the upstream source package
> >> can be formatted in any way I wish. [In this case it is a simple package
> >> with shell scripts only.]

The first thing to do is read the GNU coding standard.  Especially around
"7.2.4 DESTDIR: Support for Staged Installs".
  http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#DESTDIR

If your Makefile follows this part of GNU coding standard and install
files into the right PATH with DESTDIR support, you do not need create
the package.install file.

This certainly takes more typing than creating package.install but it is
very educational.

If you do, your debian/rules can be as simple as:

----
%:
        dh $@
----

See followings as the starting guide.
 Debian New Maintainers' Guide:
   https://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals.en.html#maint-guide
 Introduction to Debian packaging
   https://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals.en.html#packaging-tutorial

> Russ Allbery:
> > For all of the Stanford-internal packages that we make that are just
> > collections of scripts like that, we use the following rune in
> > debian/rules:
> > 
> > override_dh_auto_install:
> >         rsync -C --recursive --links --perms --times --delete \
> >             --exclude debian --exclude t --exclude .gitignore \
> >             $(CURDIR)/ debian/$(PACKAGE)

Very elegant hack :-) indeed for people who know every details.  I
should remember this. But this may be too much for a novice starting to
write upstream package and packaging it.

Regards,

Osamu