Anton, <br><br> Out of curiosity, can I ask why it's worse to package software in a .deb file in the long run?<br><br>Liam<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 February 2010 20:43, Anton Piatek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anton@piatek.co.uk">anton@piatek.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On 10 February 2010 17:23, Mark Fraser <<a href="mailto:ubuntu@mfraz.orangehome.co.uk">ubuntu@mfraz.orangehome.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br> > I would like to start compiling some programs and putting them up on my PPA<br> > starting with KRepton <<a href="http://www.keelhaul.me.uk/krepton" target="_blank">http://www.keelhaul.me.uk/krepton</a>>.<br> ><br> > Has anyone got any advice other than following<br> > <a href="http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ch-start.en.html" target="_blank">www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ch-start.en.html</a> ? I have compiled<br> > software before and also produced a few .deb packages, but none that I could<br> > distribute.<br> <br> </div>The new maintainers guide you have already found is the main doc I<br> would suggest you start with. The Debian policy is also very helpful<br> as it explains every detail you could need to know (hopefully) but it<br> is more of a reference and not a tutorial.<br> <br> It really is worth learning to build the packages as source packages<br> and build them with dpkg-buildpackage/ppa/etc (I say this because I<br> know a lot of people think its just easier to compile the code and<br> build a .deb with dpkg-deb, but it really works out much worse in the<br> long run)<br> <br> Good luck with it! It really isn't as hard as it seems at first!<br> <br> Anton<br> <br> --<br> Anton Piatek<br> email: <a href="mailto:anton@piatek.co.uk">anton@piatek.co.uk</a><br> blog/photos: <a href="http://www.strangeparty.com" target="_blank">http://www.strangeparty.com</a><br> pgp: [74B1FA37] (<a href="http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc" target="_blank">http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc</a>)<br> fingerprint: 7401 96D3 E037 2F8F 5965 A358 4046 71FD 74B1 FA37<br> <br> No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a<br> significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> --<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a><br> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>