Re: Making a srouce package Bug - #859130 ITP: lina -- iso- Forth interpreter
Hello,
>My Debian 7.11 3.2.0-4-amd64 says that build-essential is
debian current stable is "9", not "7" :)
>installed, but I can't find neither quilt nor dh_make.
>QUESTION 1: How could that be?
install quilt, debhelper, dpkg-dev and you should be good to go
(from backports possibly)
>Is my script to generate the .deb of any use (except the experience)?
no.
dpkg-buildpackage should build it.
>(Less important: if I supply texinfo should I leave out doc files from
>a source package that can be generated from it?)
you don't have to strip autogenerated stuff from the tarball, just make sure
the Debian process overrides them with newly generated files
(e.g. you can be sure by overriding dh_auto_build with some rm -rf of the
affected files, or if you are sure enough just by checking that they are not used).
stripping useless files from upstream tarball is a valuable goal, but not always
feasible (e.g. some other people might want them to avoid using / installing texinfo
>https://github.com/albertvanderhorst/ciforth
I don't see a debian directory, so I'll stop the review there :)
G.
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