Re: Question about building a Debian package
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 14:35 -0700, lmyho wrote:
> dpkg-buildpackage to build the binary package myself for use. My question is: for
> the built binary package, is there any difference between using the source file from
> the debian archive to build it, and using the source file from its own website?
With a few rare exceptions, the only difference between the debianized
source and the upstream source is the inclusion of a debian subdirectory
in the root of the source package. The debian directory contains all of
the files required for the source package to be usable in Debian. The
New Maintainer's Guide [1] should be your next stop.
1. http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/
-Jeff
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