[ubuntu-uk] Building .deb packages

[Anton Piatek]

On 10 February 2010 17:23, Mark Fraser <ubuntu at mfraz.orangehome.co.uk> wrote:
> I would like to start compiling some programs and putting them up on my PPA
> starting with KRepton <http://www.keelhaul.me.uk/krepton>.
>
> Has anyone got any advice other than following
> www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ch-start.en.html ? I have compiled
> software before and also produced a few .deb packages, but none that I could
> distribute.

The new maintainers guide you have already found is the main doc I
would suggest you start with. The Debian policy is also very helpful
as it explains every detail you could need to know (hopefully) but it
is more of a reference and not a tutorial.

It really is worth learning to build the packages as source packages
and build them with dpkg-buildpackage/ppa/etc (I say this because I
know a lot of people think its just easier to compile the code and
build a .deb with dpkg-deb, but it really works out much worse in the
long run)

Good luck with it! It really isn't as hard as it seems at first!

Anton

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