need some help with a new package

[Donald Raikes]

Hi all,

Thanks for all the suggestions.

I am getting some errors when I run debuild (see attached build.log
file).

I am trying to setup an area where I can upload my source package so
others can take a look and give me some criticism. So far I can't get it
uploaded to my launchpad ppa area because it isn't fully setup yet :-)
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 11:18 -0700, Donald Raikes wrote:I am just
starting to work with ubuntu packaging, and have several
-- 
Thanks in advance,

Donald Raikes <raptor at eagles-wing.net>
http://www.eagles-wing.net
> 
> I started with the ftimes program <http://ftimes.sourceforge.net>
>  
> I downloaded the source tarball, unpacked it and ran dh_make on it. I
> edited the necessary files in the debian folder, and ran debduild to
> create the .dsc file. I next ran pbuilder --build on the .dsc file, and
> after a few iterations and adding some packages to my chroot
> environment, it compiled fine and generated the source and binry
> packages.
> 
> Next I ran sudo dpkg -i ftimes_3.8.0-0ubuntu1.deb, and it says it was
> setup, but I cannot find any evidence of the program on my system. I ran
> updatedb and then did a locate ftimes and it onlly finds the sources and
> the pbuilder results.
> 
> How can I figure out what is going wrong with my package?
> 
> Any tips/pointers would be appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
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