lmyho wrote: > Hello All, > > I have questions about building a debian package on my own: > > Assuming I can get the same version of source files from 1) downloading the > source > from its website, 2) "apt-get source" from the debian achieve, and to use > dpkg-buildpackage to build the binary package myself for use. My question > is: for > the built binary package, is there any difference between using the source > file from > the debian archive to build it, and using the source file from its own > website? > > The reason caused me to have such question is because there seem to be some > kind of > debian/rules which need to apply to the source files before build the binary > package, but which I am not familiar with at all. I would like to know what > are > they and how to apply them? My purpose just want to make the built binary > package > safe and risk-free in practice and maintainable by the debian filesystem, > such as > can be automatically updated (via 'apt-get update' or ?) and keep it > consistent with > the system libs and other related packages always whenever the system gets > updated. > > Hope I have made my question clear, but if you need any more detail please > let me > know. > > Thank you very much for help! Any advices and comments are highly > appreciated. > > Regards, > leo
If you want to debianize a software package then you should check out the New Maintainer Guide. If you want to modify a package, then checkout my howto: http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto/howtos/debcustomize -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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