On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:05:06AM -0300, Luiz Rafael Culik Guimaraes wrote: > I´ve readed the debian pages on how to create an debian package, i manage > sucessfully, > > But i has one doubt > > since i´m comming from rpm spec files, i´d like to know if the follow lines > can be added to > debian/rules and to what section i should add on the file, please note that > macros like %{name} %{version} is already added to top of debian/rules [...]
You can't. The syntax and contents of rpm-specfiles and debian/rules are fundamentally different, there is no easy way to convert the former to the latter (or back): - debian/rules is a Makefile, referencing variables as %{name} does not work. - Debian packaging information is split to a lot of small files in debian/, a typical specfile contains not only debian/rules but also debian/control, maintainerscripts and the equivalent's to the debhelper-files like debian/dirs, debian/docs, etc. Ignore the specfile and start from scratch. cu andreas