Ubuntu Packaging Guide

[Helen McCall]

Hello again Augustina,

I will first give some feedback on the problems I had before TJ
(IntuitiveNipple) offered to teach me how to package properly.

All the information and guides I found were contradictory and appeared
incomplete. I was able to hand-build working .debs of a documentation
package openshot-docs containing the documentation and gnome help files.
But I was having difficulty making a standardised source tarball which
could be automatically built into a .deb on the Launchpad ppa.

The worst problem I have encountered is how to build a package which
when installed will cause yelp to index the supplied gnome help files
properly. All the info on the Gnome Documentation Project site were out
of date and contradictory because they had changed the method of
registering the gnome help files and not explained how it should now be
done.

The result of all of this is that I had to hack with horrible kludges to
get the help system to work on OpenShot, and still have not been able to
add the docs package to the ppa. :-(

I will give you feedback as TJ teaches me :-)

Helen


On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 17:00 -0700, Augustina Blair wrote:
> Yes please provide feedback! The challenge with the documentation I've
> had is consistency between what the teams are teaching versus what the
> guide says. I based my edit on what the guide originally said and
> tried to make sure whatever tools and processes were outlined there
> were as accurate and up to date as possible. However, I suspect
> different methods and processes may be being taught by the teams. Any
> feedback you and anyone else can offer is totally welcome.
> 
> Augustina