howTo build a binary deb packge

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Thu Aug 11 20:52:13 UTC 2005


On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 07:09:52AM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
>Johannes Behr wrote:
>>Hi,
>>We would like to release our VR-System
>>(www.ini-graphics.net/~avalon) as binary ubuntu
>>package. Is there a good (and short) description
>>on how to build a binary package with all
>>dependencies?
>
>http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=49216&highlight=dh_make
>
>worked for me very nicely.  I was able to build qemu 7.1 with it was
>only a small amount of problems.  this set of instructions doesn't tell
>you a few things that are necessary.  For example, it doesn't tell you
>how to add dependencies to the control file.  It also doesn't tell if
>you build a packaged differently when you have multiple executable
>targets versus a single executable.  And last, it doesn't tell you how
>to make it easier by building your application standalone first,
>cleaning it out and then building it with these tools.
>
>but other than that, it works great.

Debian has a really nice guide for new maintainers. It's available in
the package maint-guide.

/M

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