Re: Article: How to make a Debian package without using a helper
Dear Miriam,
I think I found some typos in your nice article.
> if she/he already did.
I'd suggest you to use "they" instead of "she/he"
see e.g.:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2004/08/msg00075.html
and... I'd rather prefer you use the present perfect
instead of past simple
<OK, native English speakers can [f|b]lame me ;-)
so:
> if she/he already did.
if she/he already did --> if they have already done
> We'll expand the tar.gz archive and rename it
> to the proper .orig.tar.gz file name it will need in Debian's
> building system ( <package>_<version>.orig.tar.gz ):
>
> $ tar xvfz roaddemo-1.0.1.tar.gz
> $ mv roaddemo-1.0.1.tar.gz roaddemo_1.0.1.orig.tar.gz
> $ cd roaddemo_1.0.1
>
> $ cd roaddemo_1.0.1
I do not understand when the *directory* roaddemo_1.0.1 (underscore)
was created.
I think that could be a typo:
s/\_/\-/
The following paragraph is due to is my ignorance
in making packages (is still ignorance strength? ;-)
I think it would be more logical firstly to rename, then to
expand the package, so /tar/ itself would create the *directory*
roaddemo_1.0.1 (underscore) ;-)
Do you think -on the other hand- that make & co. would get into
some troubles, being the directory not consistent with the
package-version nomenclature ?
(I do not have by linux box here and I can't try by myself)
Thank you again for your article.
Cheers,
Giovanni
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