Re: Getting mod_caml and perl4caml into Debian
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:09:10PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:35:52PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> [...]
>
> Things are getting better. It now puts something into the .debs, and
> the dependencies are getting there too.
>
> > Ok, the first remark is, since modcaml is not a native debian package
> > (that is one which is developed only for debian especially), it is best
> > to have the debian stuff in a separate .diff.gz file, even if you
> > maintain the debian directory in the same CVS as your upstream tarball.
> > Also it is best not to ship the debian directory in your released
> > tarballs.
>
> So at the moment I have a MANIFEST file and my Makefile just builds
> the source distribution from this. That's fine - I can omit the
> debian/ subdirectory from the source distribution this way.
>
> I'm not really sure where/how Debian builds the
> `modcaml_1.0.0-1.tar.gz' file (which is nothing to do with me -
> dpkg-buildpackage makes this itself somehow). So I'm not really sure
> how to achieve the separation of debian into a patch file this
> way. Also how to remove the CVS/ subdirectories which it mistakenly
> adds to this file.
You put a copy of your released tarballs into the directory where the
modcaml-1.0.0 directory is. You call this one modcaml_1.0.0.orig.tar.gz
(mind the _ which is not a -).
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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