Re: Getting mod_caml and perl4caml into Debian
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:51:40PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 08:55:20PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > I'm willing to do any work required to make this happen, although I'm
> > > not a particularly experienced Debian packager. My previous efforts at
> > > writing debian/rules and so on have been, hmmm, a bit shoddy. But I
> > > can learn!
> >
> > That is not all so difficult, if the upstream package is well behaved, a
> > simple run of dh_make will usually provide the bases for a working
> > package. We prefer to use dpatch though, which enables to have all the
> > modifications to the upstream tarball in the debian directory, and thus
> > make the integreation in the subversion directory easier. There is
> > naturally the ocaml_packaging_policy document which you need to read, it
> > contain lot of information pertaining to packaging of ocaml related
> > things, but i guess that you would also need to look a bit at the apache
> > and perl related documents, but i am not really familiar with them.
>
> OK, I did 'dh_make' and 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot', editing
> debian/control and a few other files in between. It doesn't really
> work. The .deb files that I end up with are essentially empty.
>
> You can have a look at the control files I'm using here:
>
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/modcaml/modcaml/debian/
Could you make the whole tarball available somewhere ? you run
dpkg-buildpackage -S, and give the url to the directory containing the 3
resulting files, and i will try building it here, and tell you what you
did wrong. Or else you could post the log of the build attempt or
something, but making the source package available is the better idea.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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