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| DATE | 2015-08-03 |
| FROM | Paul Robert Marino
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] does any pone know a good howto guide for
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Thanks every one
I'm looking through them now.
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Chris Knadle wrote:
> On 08/02/2015 02:00 PM, Ron Guerin wrote:
>>
>> On 8/2/2015 11:39 AM, Ruben Safir wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 05:14:02PM -0400, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Does any one know of a good howto guide for creating Debian packages
>>>> the ones iv found so far have been very confusing.
>>>
>>> Sunny and Chris have epxertise in this area, as I recall
>>
>> Chris is a Debian Maintainer now. But what Paul probably wants is the
>> newly re-written "New Maintainer's Guide".
>>
>> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/
>
> There's a couple of scripts you'll want from the Maintainers Guide, but
> other than that I'd recommend Lucas Nussbaum's Packaging Tutorial instead:
>
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/packaging-tutorial/packaging-tutorial.pdf
>
> You can also get this via installing the 'packaging-tutorial' package.
>
> The issue with the Debian Maintainer's Guide (which is usually what most DDs
> recommend as well) is that the documentation is big, and also points to the
> Debian Policy Manual, the Filesystem Hirearchy Standard, and another
> document on using Debconf -- hundreds of pages of reading which there's no
> associated memory or understanding until you actually try /doing/ some of
> the packaging. I tried to start by reading the Maintainer's Guide. I kept
> getting bored and putting it down. A year later I picked up the Packaging
> Tutorial and I was able to get somewhere. That's why the Packaging Tutorial
> is a better first start -- because it'll help letting you /do/ things first
> -- /then/ reading the Maintainer's Guide will make more sense.
>
> Paul: feel free to contact me offlist, because I guarantee you'll have
> further questions, because the docs don't tell you everything.
>
> -- Chris
>
> --
> Chris Knadle
> Chris.Knadle-at-coredump.us
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