Christoph Haas wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 08:01:59PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: >> Hmmm could you please give me a hint how to use this? My steps are the >> following: >> >> 1) unpack tarball >> 2) rename dir if not compatible with debian's naming convention > > No need to do that. Just enter the directory - no matter what it's > called.
this is exactly the reason, why I allways rename the dir: dh_make refuses to work if I run dh_make in the "nuvola" dir: --- The directory name must be <package>-<version> for dh_make to work! I cannot understand the directory name or you have an invalid directory name! --- I think I really miss something here, so let me explain my steps a bit more precise: - I'm currently in ~/debian - I create a nuvola dir just to seperate it from my other packages - Inside this dir I put the tarball and extract it, which gives me in this case a second nuvola dir, since upstream packed it this way - Now I am in ~/debian/nuvola/nuvola - If I run dh_make now, it refuses (see above) and this is why I rename it to ~/debian/nuvola/kde-icons-nuvola-1.0 - When I enter this dir, and run dh_make everything looks well but my org.tar.gz is off couse not the same as the upstream Could you please give me advice what I should to instead? >> 3) run dh_make >> 4) adjust all the files in debian/ >> 5) run debuild > > I use pbuilder to make sure the dependencies are correct and I'm > building in a clean environment. But debuild is generally okay. Yeah, me too I just wanted to make my steps as easy to follow as possible. >> 6) upload > > Perfect. > >> where can I improve my practice? > > You are doing well. Really. :) Just some suggestions... > > debian/control: > - Remove the empty "Builds:" line > - The "debhelper" dependency can go into "Build-Depends-Indep:" > since your package is architecture-independent > - Typo. Beautifull -> Beautiful > - "Description:..." "popular" is a bit generic :) What about: > Description: Nuvola icon theme for KDE3 Thanks, finding a good description for a trivial thing like "nice looking icons" is quite hard sometimes ;) > > debian/copyright: > - please use the exact URL where you downloaded the upstream tarball > (http://www.icon-king.com/files/nuvola-1.0.tar.gz) > - "This library is free software"... library? > - "On debian machines"... isn't this Debian? :) > > debian/docs: > - is "thanks.to" useful? > - the "readme.txt" contains a redundant copyright and not much more > useful information IMHO. What do you think? > - "author" can surely be omitted Again, thanks -- I thought one should try to leave as much upstream information as possible in the package -- but you're right. These infos are redundant. > > debian/rules: > - you need a "binary-arch" target (see > http://www.de.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-debianrules) > > Don't be frustrated by the amount of comments. Those are mainly minor > issues. Thanks for your contribution already. I believe you'll quickly > find a sponsor once this is fixed. That's really no problem, it might be frustating to find a sponsor sometimes, but having people who are willing to help eases this a bit ;) Kind regards Bastian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
