On 29-Nov-2001 Chapman, Matt wrote: > Hi, > > I have found one web page that talks about making a debian package but > wondered due to its date if there are any suggestions. > > I am looking for the easiest way to make debs , I have some programs that > are on sourceforge and would like to make a sparc and intel deb for them... > Maybe even post them to www.debian.org for submission to the package list. > > -matt
I presume these items are not already in Debian. Making a package can either be really easy or a substantial effort. It really depends on what the outcome is. Easy: single (or a couple related) binaries in one package from a source which uses autoconf (./configure) Medium: multiple packages with binaries Hard: binary + library package, any mix of the above, lack of autoconf combined with a poorly thought out upstream. There are some nice packages in Debian which have packaging info, just look thought the documentation list. I strongly recommend reading the docs and using dh_make as well.
