[ubuntu-uk] Building .deb packages

Anton Piatek anton at piatek.co.uk
Wed Feb 10 21:40:35 GMT 2010


On 10 February 2010 21:11, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
> On 10 February 2010 20:58, Liam Wilson <liamwilson93 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  Out of curiosity, can I ask why it's worse to package software in a .deb
>> file in the long run?
>>
>
> I think Anton was saying that it's worse to package binary debian
> packages, not debian packages as a whole. We create source packages
> which can be uploaded to (for example) launchpad PPAs, and built
> (compiled) for multiple architectures including i386, AMD64, LPIA and
> ARM. If you build binary packages then the onus is on you to rebuild
> for other architectures.

That is indeed what I meant.
Doing a debian source package allows you to rebuild easily and use the
advanced features available through debian helper scripts.
Creating the folder layouts and using dpkg-deb (or zipping it up
manually) to build *only* the .deb without using the debian
buildscripts may seem simple at first but has serious limitations, not
least rebuilding for another architecture via a PPA or similar

Anton


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