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Re: how to create a new debian package



Hi,

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 6:27 PM, george <george.tovrea@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> How to create a new Debian package from my source ? I want to create binary
> packages from the source I have.
>
> When I using “dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b –d” to cli ,I got the error
> msg as follows :
>
> dpkg-buildpackage: warning: using a gain-root-command while being root
>
> dpkg-buildpackage: set CFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
>
> dpkg-buildpackage: set CPPFLAGS to default value:
>
> dpkg-buildpackage: set LDFLAGS to default value: -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
>
> dpkg-buildpackage: set FFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
>
> dpkg-buildpackage: set CXXFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
>
> tail: cannot open `debian/changelog' for reading: No such file or directory
>
> dpkg-buildpackage: failure: tail of debian/changelog gave error exit status
> 1

dpkg-buildpackage is used for debian source packages (apt-get source
XXX ; apt-get build-dep XXX; cd XXX-y; dpkg-buildpackage ...)

If you want to create a deb package from zero you need go to any
tutorial [1], or read the guide from d.o:

[1] http://www.google.es/search?q=debian+packaging+tutorial&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:es-ES:official&client=firefox-a
[2] http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/

Regards,


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