rules

[The Saltydog]

On 6/23/05, Leslie Viljoen <leslie at camary.co.za> wrote:
> 
> I don't properly understand how the "rules" file gets used. It get's written
> with the aim of installing the package in <whatever build
> dir>/debian/<package name> -
> but then when the package is built and installed, everything under
> <package name>
> goes into the filesystem root.

Maybe you're wrong on the directory tree. It should be:

<whateverbuilddir>/<package name>/debian

In the <whateverbuilddir> you should put the
<package>_<version>.orig.tar.gz file, which should then be untarred in
the <package> dir.